Sant'Egidio (Mantua)

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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

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:

Martyrdom of St Vincenzo Levita (1776), by Giuseppe Bottani

Martyrdom of St Vincenzo Ferrer (1773), by Giovanni Bottani, brother of the above

Madonna of the Rosary (1777), by Vincenzo Borroni

Altarpiece of Charity of St Guerrino (1736-1742) by Giovanni Cadioli

Altarpiece of Madonna, Child, St Dominic and the Blessed Osanna Andreasi, (1593), attributed to Teodoro Ghisi

References

Sant'Egidio (Mantua) Wikipedia

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