San Barnaba, Mantua

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Location Mantua, Italy Completed 18th century Province Province of Mantua Affiliation Catholic Church		Architectural type Church Phone +39 0376 368868 Architectural style Baroque architecture

Address Piazza Giuseppe Bazzani, 1, 46100 Mantova MN, Italy Similar Ognissanti - Mantua, House of Giulio Romano, San Maurizio, San Francesco, Mantua Cathedral

San Barnaba is a Roman Catholic church located at the intersection of Via Giovanni Chiassi and Via Carlo Poma in Mantua.

History

The first church at the site was dedicated to St Barnabas, the first bishop of Milan, and was noted at the site by 1263. The church was provided by Francesco I Gonzaga in 1397 to a convent of nuns of the Servite Order. In 1737, the church was rebuilt with a new façade designed by the architect Antonio Galli Bibiena. The adjacent cloister was destroyed in 1900.

The interior contains the following works:

Via Crucis by Giuseppe Bazzani

Salvator Mundi, presbytery fresco by Teodoro Ghisi

Madonna with Child and St Filippo Benizzi by Bernardino Malpizzi

Miracle of the Fish and Loaves of Bread (1582-1583) by Lorenzo Costa the younger

Effigy of St Filippo Benizzi (1730) by Giuseppe Orioli (third altar on left)

Marriage at Cana (late 16th century) by Alessandro Maganza

Madonna and Child by Girolamo Bonsignori

Beata Elisabetta of Mantua (15th-century fresco) (Bartolomea Picenardi)

References

San Barnaba, Mantua Wikipedia

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