Sts. BARTHOLOMEW AND ALEXANDER OF THE PEOPLE FROM BERGAMO

SS. BARTOLOMEO E ALESSANDRO DEI BERGAMASCHI
Piazza Colonna

1562, renewed 1731 by Carlo De Dominicis (1696/1758)
Restored 1836/39 by Giuseppe Valadier (1762/1839)
Restored again 1902/04 by Giuseppe Sacconi (1854/1905)

“De Dominicis had a vivid imagination and cleverly used the decorative vocabulary of Borromini more than half a century after the death of the master. Along with his contemporary Federico Raguzzini he worked on the formulation of the basic themes of Roman rococo architecture, although in his later years he seems to have rejected these decorative ways in favor of the more classical taste which was then beginning to establish itself in Europe” (John Varriano - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

FAÇADE
1719 G.B. Contini (1641/1723)
Decorated with paintings, stucco and gold in the years 1902/04 by Emilio Retrosi

VAULT
“Virgin Mary and Sts. Bartholomew and Alexander” 1904 by Emilio Retrosi

2^nd CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
“Saints from Bergamo refusing to worship idols” by Giovanni Antonio Valtellina

3^rd CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Altar piece with six different paintings of saints including “S. Anne with the Virgin Mary in her arms” maybe by Marco Benefial (1684/1764)

2^nd CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Altar piece “Beheading of St. John the Baptist” 1732 by Aureliano Milani (1675/1749)

1^st CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Wooden sculpture “Christ at the Column” 1569 by Filippo Dal Borgo

SACRISTY
“Beheading of St. John the Baptist” by Girolamo Muziano (1532/92)
“Adoration of the Magi” about 1550 by an anonymous Mannerist artist

ORATORY
Two paintings with the same subject:
“Apparition of the Virgin Mary to Sts. Bartholomew and Alexander” about 1635 Giuseppe Puglia aka Bastaro (about 1600/36) and in 1574 by Durante Alberti (1538/1616)