Sant'Anna or Santa Maria e Sant'Anna is a

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style,

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church in the city of Lendinara, in the

province of Rovigo The province of Rovigo () is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Rovigo. It borders on the north with the provinces of Verona, Padua and Venice, on the south with the province of Ferrara, on the west with the provi ...

, region of

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, Italy.

History

The simple facade is made of brick with a circular oculus and full-story pilasters. Construction of an oratory and a

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convent for nuns began in 1433 with land donations by Anna Bollato Falconetti. During the 16th-century a convent of Benedictine nuns was adjacent and documented till 1777. In 1799 it was occupied by Russians, and briefly made into an orthodox church. In the 19th-century it was restored by Don Gaetano Baccari. The brick facade was refurbished in the 1930s. The main altarpiece depicts a ''Virgin and Child with Saints Anne, Joseph, Young John the Baptist, and Jacob''(1816) by Giovanni Baccari. On the altar on the left is a work by an anonymous late

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painter depicting the ''Calling of Matthew''. On the altar of the right, is a canvas depicting the''Madonna del Carmine appears before Saints, Kings, Doge and Souls in Purgatory'' (circa 1614) by

Andrea Vicentino Andrea Vicentino (c. 1542 – 1617) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza. Born in Vicenza, he was also known as ''Andrea Michieli'' or ''Michelli''. He moved ...

.Comune Lendinara
Religious itinerary.

References

15th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy Neoclassical architecture in Veneto Roman Catholic churches in Lendinara Neoclassical church buildings in Italy {{Veneto-RC-church-stub