St. ELIGIUS OF THE BLACKSMITHS

S. ELIGIO DEI FERRARI

Via di S. Giovanni Decollato 9

It was built over the ancient church of S. Martino and granted in 1453 by Pope Nicholas V (1447/55) to the Università dei Ferrari (University of the Blacksmiths)

It is also known as S. ALO or also as S. ANIGRO

It was rebuilt in 1562

Modified over the XVI, XVII and XX centuries

CEILING

1604 in wood and gilded stucco

1^st ALTAR ON THE RIGHT

“Wooden statue of St. Anthony” of the seventeenth century and frescoes of the sixteenth century

2^nd ALTAR ON THE RIGHT

“Holy Family and St. John” end of the sixteenth century by an anonymous Flemish artist

3^rd ALTAR ON THE RIGHT

Fragments of a mannerist fresco discovered in 1989 with “Way to Calvary”

MAIN ALTAR

“Madonna Enthroned, St. James and Bishops Martin and Eligius” late sixteenth century by Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta (1521/80)

“For the accuracy of the drawing, for the calm dignity of conception and composition, he stands out among the successors of Michelangelo. A good example is this Sacred Conversation made out of beautiful colors (...), which is divided into a strictly symmetrical upper half conductor and a freer lower half” (Hermann Voss)

In a reliquary is preserved a fragment of an arm of S. Eligius

3^rd ALTAR ON THE LEFT

1827 by Luigi Valadier (1726/85)

On the altar “Crucifixion” copy of the painting by Scipione Pulzone (about 1550/98) in the Chiesa Nuova

Some scholars believe that this is the original

2^nd ALTAR ON THE LEFT

“The Martyrdom and Glory of St. Ursula” 1764 by Ambrogio Mattei (1720/68)

1^st ALTAR ON THE LEFT

“S. Ampelio cured by angels” by an anonymous eighteenth-century artist

ORATORIO

Banner in silk with, on one side “Mary appears to St. Eligius” and, on the other side, “S. Ampelio cured by angels” 1750 by Pompeo Batoni (1708/87)

MUSEUM OF THE BROTHERHOOD OF S. ELIGIO DEI FERRARI

Small museum with vestments, relics and sacred furnishings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries