Via del Mascherone 61
It was known at the end of the twelfth century as S. Tommaso degli Spagnoli (St. Thomas of the Spaniards)
In the fifteenth century it was called S. Tommaso delli Muratori (St. Thomas of the Builders) and in the sixteenth century S. Tommaso della Catena (St. Thomas of the Chain), the headquarters of a company whose brothers used to hit themselves with an iron chain
In 1581 it was assigned the Confraternity of the Stigmata of the Nation of Bologna
The reconstruction and the decor were entrusted exclusively to artists from Bologna
Begun in 1582 by Ottaviano Nonni aka Ottaviano Mascherino (1524/1606), who also built the adjoining ORATORY
DOME completed in about 1655
FAÇADE 1696/1700
Renovated in 1805
It is the national church of people from Bologna
Monochrome frescoes in the dome and “Cardinal Virtues” in the PENDENTIVES about 1725 by Pompeo Aldrovandini (1677/1735)
RIGHT ALTAR
“Death of St. Joseph” by Giovan Francesco Gessi (1588/1649) a pupil of Guido Reni
Here was the tomb of Alessandro Algardi (1598/1654) with his portrait sculpted by Domenico Guidi (1625/1701), unfortunately destroyed
MAIN ALTAR
“Madonna and Child with Saints” by an unknown nineteenth century artist instead of the picture by Domenichino now in Palazzo Barberini
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