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Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza

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Location
  
Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Architectural type
  
Church

Opened
  
1590

Province
  
Province of Vicenza

Architect
  
Andrea Palladio

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Completed
  
1590

Architectural style
  
Renaissance architecture

Groundbreaking
  
1578

Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza

Address
  
Contrada Santa Maria Nova, ., 36100 Vicenza VI, Italy

Similar
  
Casa Cogollo, Palazzo Thiene Bonin Lo, Villa Gazzotti Grimani, Palazzo Civena, Palazzo Porto - Vicenza

Santa Maria Nova is a renaissance-style, Roman Catholic church in Vicenza and attributed to 1578 designs of Andrea Palladio. It is the only complete church design in Vicenza assigned to Palladio, although he did design the Valmarana chapel in Santa Corona, a portal and the cupola of the Cathedral, and the portal of Santa Maria dei Servi.

History

In 1578, a nobleman from Vicenza, Lodovico Trento, funded the reconstruction of a church adjacent to the Augustinian convent of Santa Maria Nova in Borgo Porta Nuova, in the west of the city. Members of the aristocracy often joined this convent. The church was completed by 1590. Decoration of the interior, including ceiling and wall paintings, were completed by Francesco Maffei, Andrea Vicentino, Palma il Giovane, Giulio Carpioni, and also by Alessandro Maganza and his studio. The works were dispersed during the nineteenth century when the church was deconsecrated. The only construction documents list as capomaestro, Domenico Groppino, who worked on other Palladian structures.

References

Santa Maria Nova, Vicenza Wikipedia