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Patrick

September 28, 2024

Rinaldo I laid the first stone in 1723 on the site of a building from 1190 and a sixteenth-century building dedicated to San Michele, the current church took its name from the Confraternity of San Giovanni Battista della Buona Morte, a company dedicated to assisting those condemned to capital punishment, which moved here in 1774.

It is the only church in Modena that is not annexed to other buildings. With harmonious lines, typically neoclassical, the chapel was designed by Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti. The interior has a circular plan; the lantern reaches 22 meters in height. The choir with the eighteenth-century organ by Agostino Traeri occupies the counterfaçade. In the choir, note the Beheading of the Baptist by Francesco Vellani (18th century); in the chapel on the left, commissioned by the shoemakers' corporation, a 1734 canvas by Antonio Consetti (note the mountain taking flight supported by angels in the background); in the one on the right, from 1723, also by Antonio Consetti, Madonna and Saints commissioned by the coachmen's corporation (the gate is by Malagoli). Numerous Este eagles hang on the walls. To the right of the altar, the Madonna della Mercede or delle Catene is from 1897. But the most significant attraction of the church is the Lamentation over the Dead Christ by Giudo Mazzoni: dating back to 1479, it is the oldest work of its kind in the world. The expressions of the subjects are intense (most likely copied from models alive at the time) and the drama of the scene. In the small room before the sacristy, you can see some bloody objects - mostly copies - that were used for the capital executions of the condemned (after they had been comforted and made to repent, as well as drugged with herbs by the brothers). From here you pass into the area behind the altar, where the wooden benches hosted the friars during the celebrations. In the sacristy: reliquaries, coffin covers, votive lamps and a tapestry used in processions to the scaffold with the famous inscription, taken from Qohelet, «vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas».

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