Description
The Church of San Canziano faces Piazza delle Erbe, in the heart of Padua: behind an early 17th-century facade it hides a church first recorded in 1034 and some fine Renaissance terracottas.
Its treasure is the Dead Christ in painted terracotta by Andrea Briosco, under the left-hand altar. On the high altar stand more of his terracotta statues and the altarpiece by Alessandro Varotari.
The facade, with four Corinthian half-columns, statues by Antonio Bonazza and the four Evangelists on top, was once attributed to Palladio. On the right side you can still see the small windows and the rose window of the 12th-century church.
In Pietro Damini's painting of the Miracle of the Miser's Heart, the surgeon bending over the miser is said to be a portrait of the anatomist Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente.
Its treasure is the Dead Christ in painted terracotta by Andrea Briosco, under the left-hand altar. On the high altar stand more of his terracotta statues and the altarpiece by Alessandro Varotari.
The facade, with four Corinthian half-columns, statues by Antonio Bonazza and the four Evangelists on top, was once attributed to Palladio. On the right side you can still see the small windows and the rose window of the 12th-century church.
In Pietro Damini's painting of the Miracle of the Miser's Heart, the surgeon bending over the miser is said to be a portrait of the anatomist Girolamo Fabrici d'Acquapendente.