Sant'Alessandro, Brescia

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Architectural style Baroque architecture Province Province of Brescia		Phone +39 030 375 1021

Address Via Moretto, 75, 25121 Brescia BS, Italy Similar Sant'Afra - Brescia, Sant'Angela Merici - Brescia, Sant'Agata - Brescia, Saint Giovanni Evangelista, San Clemente - Brescia

Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Moretto, 73/A in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

History

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.

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 of London

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.

References

Sant'Alessandro, Brescia Wikipedia

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