San Barbaziano, Bologna

San Barbaziano is a former Mannerist-style, Roman Catholic church located on via Cesare Battisti, 35 in central Bologna, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

History

Some sources claim a church at the site since the 5th-century. An monastery was present by 1123. Priest from the Order of Canons Regular of the Lateran were officiating by 1480

Reconstruction was commissioned in the early 17th-century by the Girolamini order from the architect Pietro Fiorini, and construction proceeded from 1608 to 1618 for the church and the adjacent convent. The church has a single nave with four chapels. In 1797, the convent was suppressed and in 1806 the church was closed. All the artwork has been removed.[1]

Prior to deconsecration the church had artworks by Errico Fiammingo; Giusepppe Monticelli; Lonardino; Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Giacomo Francia, Alessandro Mari; Girolamo Curti (il Dentone); Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, and others. The chapels were sponsored by the Laghi, Palmieri, Banzi Melini, Sacchi, and Zambezzari families.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Biblioteca Salaborsa, entry on church.
  2. ↑ Pitture scolture ed architetture delle chiese, luoghi pubblici, palazzi, e case della Citta di Bologna, by Carlo Cesare Malvasia , Stamperia del Longhi, Bologna (1792). page 165-166.

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