San Biagio, Pollenza
San Biagio is a Neoclassical-style, Roman Catholic collegiate church located in the town of Pollenza, province of Macerata, region of Marche, Italy.
History[]
The church was designed in 1834 by De Mattia of Treia with a Greek Cross layout. The areal had since 1269, housed a small Romanesque church dependent on the , complete with an adjacent convent and cloister. That church was razed in 1791 to erect one befitting the population increase. The architect Bracci had initially planned a church resembling the Pantheon in Rome, but the ceiling collapsed. This led to the reconstruction by De Mattia in 1834, whose design was influenced by a church designed by Valadier for Monte San Pietrangeli.
The façade has tall columns holding a triangular tympanum over a pronaos. The tall (35 meter) belltower was completed by 1844, and the base starts with the ancient campanile tower.
The cupola, main chapel, and nave were frescoed by . Behind the main altar is a canvas depicting St John the Baptist and St Blaise below the Virgin. The Chapels belong to local confraternities: on the left, the Chapel of Holiest Sacrament, decorated by Giovanni Cingolani with a depiction of the Story and Glory of the Eurcharist; on the right, the Chapel of the Holiest Crucifix depicting the Passion of Christ by Biagio Biagetti. The interior decoration also includes paintings by at Domenico Tojetti and . Above the entry portal is an organ made by the Callido family in 1793.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Chiesa di San Biagio di Pollenza". provincia.mc.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on May 4, 2019.
Coordinates: 43°16′09″N 13°20′48″E / 43.269184°N 13.346530°E
- Neoclassical architecture in le Marche
- 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
- Churches in the Province of Macerata
- Roman Catholic churches in the Marche