Santa Maria Canale is a
Romanesque-style
Roman Catholic
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church located in
Tortona
Tortona (; pms, Torton-a , ; lat, Dhertona) is a ''comune'' of Piemonte, in the Province of Alessandria, Italy. Tortona is sited on the right bank of the Scrivia between the plain of Marengo and the foothills of the Ligurian Apennines.
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Province of Alessandria
The Province of Alessandria ( it, Provincia di Alessandria; pms, Provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: ''Provinsa ëd Lissändria'') is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part o ...
, region of
Piedmont
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, Italy.
History
A church at the site is documented from 1151, and some of the structural elements of that church persist. The rectangular apse and the chapels date from the mid 1500s. The facade underwent restoration in 1853. The interior has some 15th-century frescoes, but most of the decoration was added by
Rodolfo Gambini
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in 1918. The church has a 17th-century ''Annunciation'' by Fiamminghino; paintings by a pupil of
Bernardino Campi named
Brandimarte della Torre, by the 17th-century painter
Giuseppe Vermiglio and by the 20th-century Gambini.
Comune of Tortona website
entry on church.
References
Churches in Tortona
Romanesque architecture in Piedmont
12th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
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