Budrio, chiesa di San Lorenzo - panoramio

Santa Lorenzo is the main Roman Catholic parish church located in the Piazza Filopanti on Via Leonida Bissolati #66, in the center of town, across the piazza from the Palazzo Comunale of

Budrio Budrio ( Eastern Bolognese: ) is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; it is east of Bologna. Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his pseudonym of Quirico Filopanti, an I ...

, province of Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy.

History

A church of this name is documented since 1146. The structure changed over the centuries, and in 1406, it was ceded to the Servite order, who gained the privilege of baptism, and by the 1450s had built the cloister adjacent to the church. In the 17th century a new church was completed with a dome of the main chapel completed 1608–1612. In 1734–1736,

Alfonso Torreggiani Alfonso Torreggiani (1682–1764) was an Italian architect of the Rococo period, principally associated with Bologna. Life Torregiani was born in Budrio. An apprentice of Giuseppe Antonio Torri, he became intensely active in the city of ...

performed an extensive refurbishment, adding the external portico that obscures half of the facade. Later in the 18th century, the architect Giuseppe Tubertini expanded the interior. The interior houses statues of St Sebastian and Lawrence, attributed to

Filippo Scandellari Filippo is an Italian male given name, which is the equivalent of the English name Philip, from the Greek ''Philippos'', meaning "amante dei cavalli".''Behind the Name''"Given Name Philip" Retrieved on 23 January 2016. The female variant is Filip ...

. At the presbytery, the nave's barrel ceiling is supported by large free-standing Corinthian columns, designed by Giovanni Battista Canepa. Four chapels open to each flank. Among the altarpieces in the chapels are paintings by Gaetano Gandolfi (''Martyrdom of St Lawrence''); Giovanni Andrea Donducci (''Christ consigns keys to St Peter''); Pietro Fancelli; and other artists of the Bolognese Baroque school. The wooden pulpit was guilt in 1578. A Polychrome sculpture of the ''Madonna Addolorata'' was completed by

. The organ dates to the mid-19th century.Comune of Budrio
official website.

References

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