Sant'Eufemia (Novara)
The Chiesa di Sant'Eufemia is a Roman Catholic church building in the Baroque style in Novara , the capital of the province of Novara in the Piedmont region , Italy . It is at via Magnani Ricotti 15.
history
The church was started in 1666 by order of the brotherhood of the same name in place of an older dilapidated church and was completed in 1698. It is typical for sacred buildings of the Counter Reformation .
Structure
The building has a concave curved facade that was built between 1694 and 1698. This is divided by protruding cornices , in the middle there is a canopy, which is supported by slender columns and surmounted by a large window, above which a curved gable rises in turn.
The floor plan of the single-nave church shows the shape of a Latin cross with a transept and a choir .
Furnishing
Inside the church there is a painting by G. Pianca Martyrdom of a Saint , dated 1745; another, signed “Sant'Agostino” and dated 1677, depicting the “Ascension among the Saints”; also a painting by Bartolomeo Vandoni from the seventeenth century depicting St. Omobonos; and a fifteenth-century fresco in the choir. The carvings on the baroque pulpit were made between 1682 and 1683 by AF Vallo from Novara. The choir was designed in 1775 in the Rococo style by G. Olivarez from Corbetta and P. Barengo from Magenta .
Tombs
In the church there are several marble funerary monuments. That of Count Giuseppe Tornielli Brusati was created by Antonio Bisetti in 1843, and the tombs of Cardinal Giovanni Caccia-Piatti and Bishop Giacomo Scotti are also in the church .
Web links
- Church of Sant'Eufemia. Comune di Novara, accessed March 19, 2017 (Italian).
Coordinates: 45 ° 26 ′ 56.8 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 10.8" E