Description
The Church of Santa Caterina is a small Baroque church on Via Cesare Battisti in Padua, tied to two famous names: the composer Giuseppe Tartini is buried here, and Galileo Galilei's children were baptized here.
In the churchyard stands the bronze statue of Tartini, from 2014. Inside is a bright hall of about 14 by 9 meters, with the Baroque high altar and the altarpiece of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine by Marcantonio Bonaccorsi.
Near the altar, fragments of 13th- and 14th-century frescoes survive. Above the entrance is a raised wooden choir, from which the Augustinian nuns followed Mass behind a grille, and one of the oldest organs in the city.
The Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch and Saint Charles by Pietro Damini was painted during the plague of 1630, which also killed the painter: it was his last work.
In the churchyard stands the bronze statue of Tartini, from 2014. Inside is a bright hall of about 14 by 9 meters, with the Baroque high altar and the altarpiece of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine by Marcantonio Bonaccorsi.
Near the altar, fragments of 13th- and 14th-century frescoes survive. Above the entrance is a raised wooden choir, from which the Augustinian nuns followed Mass behind a grille, and one of the oldest organs in the city.
The Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch and Saint Charles by Pietro Damini was painted during the plague of 1630, which also killed the painter: it was his last work.