Location Mantua, Italy Architectural type Church Completed 1787 Architectural style Baroque architecture | Affiliation Roman Catholic Groundbreaking Reconstruction in 1721 Opened 1787 Province Province of Mantua | |
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Address Via Pietro Frattini, 34, 46100 Mantova MN, Italy Similar Church of Sant'Orsola, Galleria Museo Palazzo, San Maurizio, Santa Maria della Carità - M, Mantua Cathedral | ||
The church of Sant'Egidio is located in the historic center of Mantua on Via Pietro Frattini. A church was located on the site likely by the 9th century, but is documented from the year 1151 in a bull by Pope Eugenius III . In 1540, the chapel of the Valenti was built, commissioned by the last will of Valente Valenti, courtier in the Gonzaga Duchy. Beginning in 1721, the church underwent a major reconstruction, and the present facade dates to that time. In 1777, the cardinal Luigi Valenti reconstructed the family chapel.
The interior, mainly the semicircular apse, contains the following canvases:
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