San Torpete
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San Torpete is a church in central Genoa
, northern Italy
, dedicated to Saint Torpes. It was founded in the 11th century by local merchants. It was rebuilt in the 18th century under designs conceived by Giovanni Antonio Ricca.
The interior ceiling is decorated with paintings and stucco by Giovanni Carlone depicting scenes of the Life of San Torpete. A Madonna and Saints are by a pupil of Luca Cambiaso, and part of a school of Caravaggio
's painting.
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
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, dedicated to Saint Torpes. It was founded in the 11th century by local merchants. It was rebuilt in the 18th century under designs conceived by Giovanni Antonio Ricca.
The interior ceiling is decorated with paintings and stucco by Giovanni Carlone depicting scenes of the Life of San Torpete. A Madonna and Saints are by a pupil of Luca Cambiaso, and part of a school of Caravaggio
Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1593 and 1610. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on the Baroque...
's painting.