Sant'Alessandro, Brescia
Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Moretto, 73/A in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.
History
[edit]The first church at the site was founded in 1153, adjacent to a hospital, by the 15th-century it had been granted to the Servite nuns. The church was consecrated in 1466, then rebuilt in Baroque style in 1784, but the facade was only completed by 1891. A fountain is present in the square in front.[1]
Among the interior altarpiece paintings are:
- Annunciation, 1st altar, by Jacopo Bellini
- Pieta (1504), 2nd altar, Vincenzo Civerchio
- Painting (1943) by Angelo Righetti, replaces the ancient Icon of Mary, 3rd altar by Gregoretti
- Ecce Homo, 4th altar, fresco by Lattanzio Gambara
- Martyrdom of St Alexander, main altarpiece, Pietro Moro, replaced the masterpiece polyptych of Girolamo Romanino, now in the National Gallery in London.[2]
- St Phillip Benizzi, 7th altar, by Grazio Cossali
- Saints Roch, Lodovico, and Sebastian, 9th altar, Sebastiano Arragonese
Over the entrance doorway are paintings of the Lives of Saints Alexander and Filippo Benizzi by Girolamo Rossi.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Turismo Brescia entry.
- ^ "High Altarpiece, S. Alessandro, Brescia". National Gallery. London. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ Guida di Brescia rapporto alle arti ed ai monumenti antichi e moderni, by Federico Odorici (1853), page 84-86.