Sant'Alessandro, Brescia

Sant'Alessandro is a Baroque style, Roman Catholic parish church located on Via Moretto, 73/A in Brescia, region of Lombardy, Italy.

Facade

History

The first church at the site was founded in 1153, adjacent to a hospital, by the 15th-century it had been granted to the Servite nuns. The church was consecrated in 1466, then rebuilt in Baroque style in 1784, but the facade was only completed by 1891. A fountain is present in the square in front.[1]

Among the interior altarpiece paintings are:

  • Annunciation, 1st altar, by Jacopo Bellini
  • Pieta (1504), 2nd altar, Vincenzo Civerchio
  • Painting (1943) by Angelo Righetti, replaces the ancient Icon of Mary, 3rd altar by Gregoretti
  • Ecce Homo, 4th altar, fresco by Lattanzio Gambara
  • Martyrdom of St Alexander, main altarpiece, Pietro Moro, replaced the masterpiece polyptych of Girolamo Romanino, now in the National Gallery in London.[2]
  • St Phillip Benizzi, 7th altar, by Grazio Cossali
  • Saints Roch, Lodovico, and Sebastian, 9th altar, Sebastiano Arragonese

Over the entrance doorway are paintings of the Lives of Saints Alexander and Filippo Benizzi by Girolamo Rossi.[3]

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References
  1. Turismo Brescia entry.
  2. "High Altarpiece, S. Alessandro, Brescia". National Gallery. London. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  3. Guida di Brescia rapporto alle arti ed ai monumenti antichi e moderni, by Federico Odorici (1853), page 84-86.

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