San Bartolomeo degli Armeni is a church in the quarter of Castelletto in Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

, northern Italy

Italy

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The church was founded in 1308 by a group of Basilian monk

Basilian monk

Basilian monks are monks who follow the "Rule" of Saint Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea. The chief importance of the monastic rules and institutes of St. Basil lies in the fact that to this day his reconstruction of the monastic life is the basis of most of the monasticism practiced in the...

s who were fleeing the Turkish invasion of southern Armenia

Armenia

Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...

. Of the original edifice, the apse, the dome and the left chapel remain; the right chapel was destroyed in 1883.

The church houses the "Holy Face of Edessa

Image of Edessa

According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa was a holy relic consisting of a square or rectangle of cloth upon which a miraculous image of the face of Jesus was imprinted — the first icon ....

", a line relic with a tempera painting of the face of Jesus, which the Genoese doge Leonardo Montaldo from the Byzantine emperor and which he donated to the Basilians. The church houses artiworks by Giovanni Battista Paggi

Giovanni Battista Paggi

Giovanni Battista Paggi was an Italian painter of the Late-Renaissance and early-Baroque.He was born in Genoa into the well-to-do family of his father Pellegrino...

, Orazio de Ferrari

Orazio de Ferrari

Orazio de Ferrari was an Italian artist, active in the Baroque period, born in Voltri, a suburb of Genoa. de Ferrari was a pupil of Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo. He was a member of the family of Genoese artists, with surnames de Ferrari, which also included Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari and Gregorio De...

, Giulio Benso

Giulio Benso

Giulio Benso was a Genovese painter of the early Baroque. He is known as one of the followers of the style of Luca Cambiasi....

, Lazzaro Tavarone

Lazzaro Tavarone

Lazzaro Tavarone was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Mannerist period, active mainly in his native Genoa and in Spain....

, Giacomo Boni

Giacomo Boni (painter)

Giacomo Boni was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa.He was born in Bologna, and became a pupil of Marcantonio Franceschini, and later of the painter Carlo Cignani in Forlì. He returned and followed Franceschini to Genoa, then Crema, Piacenza, Lavino, Parma, and...

, Luca Cambiasi

Luca Cambiasi

Luca Cambiasi was an Italian painter and draftsman, familiarly known as Lucchetto da Genova.-Biography:...

, Anton Maria Maragliano

Anton Maria Maragliano

Anton Maria Maragliano was an Italian sculptor of the Baroque period, known primarily for his wooden statues...

and others.