Santa Cristina alla Fondazza is a deconsecrated Roman Catholic church and adjacent former convent,located on Piazzeta Morandi in central Bologna, Italy. The church now serves as a music hall for classical music, while the convent houses the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Bologna.
History
A church at the site was putatively established at the site in 1247 by Camaldolese monks. The church we see now was designed in 1602 by Giulio della Torre, a pupil of Domenico Tibaldi. By the Napoleonic era, the church was used for a time as barracks. The church has two sculptures of St Peter and Paul by Guido Reni. The main altarpiece is an Ascension by Ludovico Carracci. Other sculptures in the church were completed by Giuseppe Maria Mazza and G. Fiorini and paintings by Giacomo Francia and Francesco Salviati. It was said at one time to hold paintings by Lucio Massari, Bartolomeo Passerotti and his son Tiburzio, Domenico Maria Canuti, Giovanni Battista Bertusio, Mastelletta, and Bernardino Baldi,
The adjacent Camaldolese monastery is now the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Bologna. It houses a fresco of the Crucifixion by the school of Lorenzo Costa.