GENOA - Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata del Vastato

The basilica of the Santissima Annunziata del Vastato is located in Piazza della Nunziata and is one of the most representative churches of Genoese art of late Mannerism and, above all, of the Baroque of the early seventeenth century. Work began on 20 July 1520, when the first stone was laid and the church was built in late Gothic style. However, the church was not completed: the works stopped after the erection of the bearing walls and the closure of the roof; the internal decorations were few and simple, also for a logic of Franciscan poverty. In 1591 the friars sold the patronage of the main chapel to the very rich Lomellini family, owner of Tabarca thanks to the concession received in 1544 at the time of Andrea Doria, thanks to which they had the very flourishing coral trade. The Lomellinis undertook to pay and supervise all the work, in exchange for using the church as a family chapel. Under their patronage, the greatest artistic-architectural-pictorial enterprise of the seventeenth century in Genoa was achieved, structurally resolved in the cladding of a false medieval skeleton. The interior, large and bright, restored after the serious damage of the Second World War, with three naves, has a Latin cross plan with a series of chapels in the side naves, enriched with frescoes, paintings, inlaid marble and pure gold stucco. works by the best Genoese artists of the seventeenth century. The sculptural decoration of the church with marble, stones, stucco and gold was given to the two painters Giovanni and Giovanni Battista Carlone. Giovanni Carlone put his hand to the fresco decoration in the second half of the twenties, starting to paint the episodes planned for the transept but at a certain point he interrupted himself to go to work on the decoration of the church of Sant'Antonio Abate of the Theatine Fathers in Milan, but in 1631, shortly after starting to paint for this last commission, he died suddenly.
It was his brother Giovanni Battista who completed the unfinished works and painted the remaining bays of the central nave. When the time came to decorate the most important places in the building, the Lomellinis turned to Andrea Ansaldo, who was asked first of all to put his hand on the dome. The artist worked on it uninterruptedly for three years, until his death in 1638. In the dome the painted architectures continue the real ones of the church, and from a large arch you can see the Assumption surrounded by various biblical characters. The ascending vortex ends in the dome where God the Father is depicted. In 1995 the painter Raimondo Sirotti painted a "Meeting of Saints Joachim and Anna"; reinterpretation of the original apse painting, the work of the seventeenth-century painter Giulio Benso. The neoclassical facade, which is characterized by the two bell towers and above all by the grandiose pronaos with six columns in the Ionic style, was built in 1867. During the bombings that devastated the city during the Second World War, the church was repeatedly hit , but the greatest damage occurred above all on 29 October 1943. Many frescoes in the side chapels were destroyed. Under the bombs, however, overall the load-bearing structure held, the pillars remained, and some filling walls and some vaults collapsed.
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[@sydneyr.cauveren7857]

Considering the bombardment this church suffered during WWII, the restoration work has been remarkable... It is so easy to destroy, but so difficult to create!! You are not just a great photographer, Massimo, but an outstanding educator of your culture as well. Wishing you endless inspiration from "Down Under"

[@carloscuadrado6154]

Preciosa, muchas gracias

[@MassimoNalli]

Hola Carlos, gracias

[@fernandaspelta]

Belissimo🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@MassimoNalli]

Grazie molto gentile

[@user-bp2ic4wc1e]

Splendido documento, vale come la visita, con in più la visione dei dettagli in maniera non raggiungibile dal vero. Grazie per accrescere la sensazione di orgoglio che mi da essere parte di questa città, unica per come riesce a nascondere elementi di così grande bellezza tra elementi della vita quotidiana.

[@MassimoNalli]

Grazie mille per il commento 🙂 Grazie

[@SilasLozanoPaz]

Muito grato Nassimo! Belissimo video

[@MassimoNalli]

Olà muito obrigado :)

[@Angel-sk8yp]

Conozco Genova, es una ciudad maravillosa. Recuerdo el precioso cementerio de Staglieno. Esta basilica es espectacular. Muchas gracias Massimo.

[@MassimoNalli]

Gracias a ti. Proximamente voy a publicar tambien un video del cementerio de Staglieno

[@rikaweimann6063]

Good morning Massimo 🌞 very nice video thank you Grazie ⛪❤ from Berlin 🍺

[@MassimoNalli]

Good morning Erika have a nice day! 😘

[@marcelcilibiu227]

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[@marcelcilibiu227]

HAI G.S SA VEDEM LUMEA,LUMEA NOASTRĂ, A ARTEI A CREDINTEI,SA O FACEM CU TOATE PUTERILE NOASTRE SI SA INTIMPINAM O GRAMADA DE SFINTI.

[@marcelcilibiu227]

SI AICI ACASA INTRU IN FIECARE BISERICA CARE IMI IESE IN CALE MI AM PROPUS SA LE VAD PE TOATE,TE INVIT SA FACEM ASTA .

[@marcelcilibiu227]

SA NE FIE SPRE BINECUVANTARE SI TRANSCENDENTA,SA FIM PELERINI AICI SI SA NE ODIHNIM IN SANUL LUI AVRAM IN IMPARATIA LUI DUMNEZEU AMIN. DINCOLO.