San Silvestro is

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

-style, Roman Catholic parish church located at Via Abà #9 in the town of

Fanano Fanano ( Frignanese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Modena in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna and about south of Modena. Fanano borders the following municipalities: Cutigliano, Fiumalbo ...

in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy. The church still has traces of Romanesque architecture in sculpted column capitals (1206) from the crypt and the apse.

History

A church at the site was supposedly founded by 750 by Sant'Anselmo, who abandoned a post as Duke of Friuli to become a cenobitic monk. The land was ceded by his cousin Astolfo, King of the Lombards. Anselmo later moved to found the

abbey of Nonantola Nonantola Abbey, dedicated to Saint Sylvester, is a former a Benedictine monastery and ''prelature nullius'' in the commune of Nonantola, c. 10 km north-east of Modena, in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. The abbey church remains as a basi ...

. Documentation for the church is only found from the 14th-century. However a fire destroyed that church, and an expanded and re-oriented

-style church was erected in 1612. The new church had a nave with flanking aisles, and was supplemented with various chapels. Construction utilized spolia from the prior edifice. A 20th-century refurbishment attempted to reimpose a Romanesque style to the building. The church houses a ''Madonna and Saints'' by Domenico Passignano, as well as a painting by

Pellegrino Pellegrini (Fanano painter) Pellegrino Tibaldi ( Valsolda, 1527–Milan, 1596), also known as Pellegrino di Tibaldo de Pellegrini, was an Italian mannerist architect, sculptor, and mural painter. Biography Tibaldi was born in Puria di Valsolda, then part of the duchy of ...

. I also has a 14th-century fresco attributed to either Tommaso or Barnaba da Modena, and canvases by

Ascanio Magnanini Ascanio Magnanini (active 1599–1621) was an Italian painter, active mainly in Modena. He was born in Fanano. He painted an altarpiece for San Silvestro Papa and San Francesco, Fanano San Francesco is 17th-century Roman Catholic church, once att ...

Francesco Curradi Francesco Curradi or Currado (15 November 1570 – 1661) was an Italian painter of the style described as Counter-''Maniera'' or Counter-Mannerism, born and active in Florence. Biography Curradi was the son of a jeweller, Taddeo. He trained und ...

, and Matteo Ponzone.Comune of Fanano
entry on church.

References

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