Chiesa del Gesù (Ferrara)

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Chiesa del Gesù
(formerly San Michele nel Gesù)

Basic data
Denomination Roman Catholic
place Ferrara , Italy
diocese Archdiocese of Ferrara-Comacchio
Building history
Client Jesuit order
start of building 1570
Building description
Architectural style Renaissance
Construction type Hall church
Coordinates 44 ° 50 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 37' 16.2"  E Coordinates: 44 ° 50 '20.7 "  N , 11 ° 37' 16.2"  E
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The Chiesa del Gesù is located in Via Borgo dei Leoni 56 in Ferrara .

history

It was built in 1570 for the Jesuits based on a design by Alberto Schiatti or Giovanni Tristano . After the abolition of the Jesuit order in 1773, the church and the college were the somaschi fathers entrusted -Patern. In 1933 Archbishop Ruggero Bovelli transferred the priory of San Michele to the Chiesa del Gesù and the name was changed to San Michele nel Gesù . During the Second World War , the church was damaged in air raids in 1944. In 1986 the parish again changed its name from "San Michele nel Gesù" to its current name.

description

Outside

The austere facade has brick cladding typical of Ferrara architecture.

Inside

The single-nave hall church contains some valuable works of art, such as the Annunciation by Bastarolo (approx. 1585), which is in the first chapel on the right. In the second and third chapels on the right are the two altarpieces by Giuseppe Maria Crespi from Bologna , depicting the communion of St. Stanislaus Kostka in the presence of St. Ludwig Gonzaga (1727) and the miracle of St. Francis Xavier (1729).

To the left of the entrance is the group of sculptures in polychrome terracotta from the 15th century by Guido Mazzoni depicting the Lamentation of the dead Christ , originally located in the church of Santa Maria della Rosa (damaged by bombing during World War II and then in the 1950s Years ago). Mazzoni's work, also known as Pianzun d'la Rosa in the Ferrara dialect , was moved to its current location, which was considered more prestigious, after the 1933 Ferrara Renaissance Exhibition.

In the first chapel on the left we find another work by Bastarolo, the blessing God the Father , located on the site of a crucifixion that was destroyed in 1944. The next chapel houses an altarpiece painted by Giuseppe Ghedini with Jesuit saints: Miracles of San Francesco Borgia and San Francesco Regis (1758).

Behind the baroque marble high altar is the grave monument of Duchess Barbara of Austria , wife of Alfonso II. D'Este, who died in 1572 . The work was completed twenty years after her death and is attributed to Francesco Casella based on a design by the court antiquarian and humanist Pirro Ligorio .

There are also works by the baroque painter Giacomo Parolini in the church.

Above the main entrance is the cantoria with the organ built in 1976 by Gianni Ferraresi (Opus VII) with electrical transmission and 25 stops .

  • Baroque high altar

  • The proclamation of Bastarolo

  • Guido Mazzoni, mourning for the dead Christ

  • Grave of Barbara of Austria

literature

  • Giuseppe Antenore Scalabrini: Memorie istoriche delle chiese di Ferrara e de 'suoi borghi munite, ed illustrate con antiche inediti monumenti, che possono servire all'Istoria Sacra della suddetta Città dedicate al nobil uomo il signor conte Francesco Greco in Ferrara MDCCLXXIII per Carlo Coatti con licenza de 'superiori . 1773, p. 132-139 ( google.at ).
  • Alberto Guzzon, Paola Poggipollini (ed.): Chiese e Monasteri di Ferrara, Devozione Storia Arte di una Città della Fede . Comunicarte, Ferrara 2000, ISBN 88-87527-06-7 , pp. 167-170 (Italian).
  • Anna Maria Visser Travagli (Ed.): Guido Mazzoni. il Compianto sul Cristo morto nella Chiesa del Gesù a Ferrara. l'opera e il restauro . Centro Di, Ferrara 2003, ISBN 88-7038-395-4 (Italian).
  • Giovanni Sassu, Francesco Scafuri: Le chiese di Ferrara: storia, arte e fede . Ferrara arte, Ferrara 2013, ISBN 978-88-89793-17-6 , pp. 56-67 (Italian).

Web links

Commons : San Michele del Gesù  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikibooks: Disposition of the organ  - learning and teaching materials (Italian)
  • Chiesa del Gesù . Portals turistico Ferrara Terra e Acqua.
  • Ottani Simonetta: Parrocchia del Gesù . Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali. May 18, 2005 First edition. Retrieved February 3, 2020.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parrocchia del Gesù ( it ) beniculturali.it.
  2. ↑ G. Sassu: Iconografie gesuitiche e lo "scomodo" ospite Guido Mazzoni . In: Le chiese di Ferrara: storia, arte e fede . 2013, p. 65 (Italian).
  3. ↑ G. Sassu, 2013, p. 64