Oratorio di San Rocco, Siena

Oratorio di San Rocco
Oratorio di San Rocco
Religion
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Location
Geographic coordinates	Coordinates: 43°19′23″N 11°19′54″E / 43.323008°N 11.331576°E
Architecture
Style	Renaissance

The Oratory of San Rocco is a small Roman Catholic prayer hall or independently standing chapel, located on via Vallerozzi in Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.

History[]

The oratory was initially built by the Confraternity of San Rocco in 1511.^[1] The simple two story building has been the property of the Contrada della Lupa, a ward in north Siena, since 1789. The brick façade has an oculus with a 16th-century statue of St Roch, and a travertine marble tympanum.

The interior and the apse are frescoed in the 17th century. The chapel of San Rocco has a 16th-century polychrome terracotta statue of its namesake, and is decorated by frescoes on the Life of St Roch by Crescenzio Gambarelli and Rutilio Manetti. The baptismal font was designed by , and is decorated with a she-wolf (Lupa) emblem (1962) by .^[2]

References[]

^ Raju, A. (2014). The Via Francigena Canterbury to Rome – Part 2: The Great St Bernard Pass to Rome. Cicerone Press. p. 456. ISBN 978-1-78362-012-8. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
^ Contrada della Luppa, entry on the oratory.

External links[]

Media related to Oratorio di San Rocco (Siena) at Wikimedia Commons

[Raju_2014_p._456-1] Raju, A. (2014). The Via Francigena Canterbury to Rome – Part 2: The Great St Bernard Pass to Rome. Cicerone Press. p. 456. ISBN 978-1-78362-012-8. Retrieved 4 June 2019.

[2] Contrada della Luppa, entry on the oratory.

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