The Church of Saint Roch (Italian : Chiesa di San Rocco) is a late-Baroque style, Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch located in Parma, Italy.
The Church of Saint Roch (Italian : Chiesa di San Rocco) is a late-Baroque style, Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Roch located in Parma, Italy.
Originally an oratory founded in 1528 during a plague epidemic. The site was ceded to the Jesuits, who rebuilt the church in 1754 by designs by Alfonso Torreggiani. [1] During this reconstruction, they destroyed a prominent fresco depicting The Flagellation (1608) by Federico Zuccaro. [2] [3] The bell tower was added in 1747 by the architect Antonio Bettoli. [4]
The first chapel had a canvas by Giovanni Gaibazzi. The second chapel had a St Francis Xavier baptizes infidels by Pietro Rotari; he also painted the altarpiece of St Ursula and martyrs. The main altarpiece was by Francesco Scaramuzza. To the left was a canvas of the Circumcision of Jesus by Giacinto Brandi and the funeral monument of Countess Giacinta Sanvitali di Poli attributed to Alberto Oliva. In the second chapel on the left was a St Ignatius by Lionello Spada and an Institution of the Eucharist by Calloni. The first chapel on the left was a St Louis Gonzaga and a St Filomena by Giovanni Battista Borghesi. [5]
The Church of the Gesù is the mother church of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), a Catholic religious order. Officially named Chiesa del Santissimo Nome di Gesù, its façade is "the first truly baroque façade", introducing the baroque style into architecture. The church served as a model for innumerable Jesuit churches all over the world, especially in the central Europe and then in the Portuguese colonies. Its paintings in the nave, crossing, and side chapels became models for Jesuit churches throughout Italy and Europe, as well as those of other orders. The Church of the Gesù is located in the Piazza del Gesù in Rome and is one of the great 17th century preaching churches built by Counter-Reformation orders in the Centro Storico.
Santa Maria in Vallicella, also called Chiesa Nuova, is a church in Rome, Italy, which today faces onto the main thoroughfare of the Corso Vittorio Emanuele and the corner of Via della Chiesa Nuova. It is the principal church of the Oratorians, a religious congregation of secular priests, founded by St Philip Neri in 1561 at a time in the 16th century when the Counter Reformation saw the emergence of a number of new religious institutes such as the Jesuits, the Theatines, and the Barnabites. These new congregations were responsible for several great preaching churches built in the Centro Storico, the others being Sant'Andrea della Valle (Theatines), San Carlo ai Catinari (Barnabites), and The Gesù and Sant'Ignazio (Jesuits).
The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco is a church in central Rome, Italy, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously there was a church called Ss. Quaranta Martiri de Calcarario. It is located on Via dei Cestari, near the corner with Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and across the street and diagonal from the Largo di Torre Argentina.
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