Ognissanti (Parma)

The church of Ognissanti is found on Bixio street in Parma, Region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Ognissanti Facade

History

Initial documents date the church to 1230. By the year 1317, the church was linked to the Benedictine monastery adjacent to the church of Sant'Alessandro. Internal reconstructions were performed in 1485 and 1562, the present structure dates from the 19th century, including an 1826 façade by Paolo Gazzola. The main altarpiece, depicting a ''Paradise under Christ'' (1610) by Giovanni Lanfranco had been looted by the French and sent to Paris in 1799; it was returned and now is exhibited in the National Art Gallery of Parma.Nuova descrizione della città di Parma
by Paolo Donati; Giuseppe Paganino publisher, Parma (1824); page 132.

It still contains the following paintings, including an ''Immaculate Conception'' by a young Pietro Melchiorre Ferrari, a ''Madonna with Saints Liberata and Teopista'' by Antonio Pasini, a ''St John the Baptist and Joseph’s Dream'' by Giuseppe Peroni, and a ''Madonna of the Rosary'' by Giovanni Gaibazzi. The small canvases of the ''Via Crucis'' are attributed to Francesco Scaramuzza.

The Organ, built in 1747 by Bernardo Poncini, it was transferred to the church from the suppressed Augustinian monastery. It was restored in 1928 by Pedrini.

References

External links

Academy of Music for Church

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Ognissanti
Neoclassical architecture in Parma
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy
Neoclassical church buildings in Italy