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Church of San Marco (Novara)

Church of San Marco (Novara)

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Church of San Marco (Novara)

Name: Church of San Marco (Novara)
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Location: Novara, Piedmont, Italy

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1. Duomo of Novara – Palazzo Natta loop from Novara

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2. Basilica of San Gaudenzio – Duomo of Novara loop from Sant'Antonio

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3. Basilica of San Gaudenzio – Basilica of San Gaudenzio loop from Novara

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April 20, 2025

The church of San Marco is a Catholic place of worship in the city of Novara, in Piedmont.

With its sumptuous interior, it represents a good example of the Baroque.

The church was founded in 1607 at the behest of Bishop Carlo Bascapè, former secretary of Carlo Borromeo, on the site of a pre-existing small oratory called San Marchino.

The project seems to be by the architect and Barnabite father Lorenzo Binago who conceived a building with a Latin cross plan, a single nave with six side chapels and a rectangular dome. He erected it by 1617. In 1634 the convent was added to the church, Bascapè's intention was in fact to establish a college of higher studies for the Clerics Regular of San Paolo in Novara. The building was completed and consecrated only in 1691 when it was assigned to the Barnabite Fathers.

The interior features a sumptuous baroque decoration made using red marble, statuary porphyry, patinated wood, gilding and stucco. The frescoes on the vault of the apse and the dome depict God the Father blessing and the Glory of St. John the Evangelist; in the vaults the Evangelists and the Sibyls. Works carried out between 1613 and 1615 by Moncalvo

Bascapé's attention initially turned to the chapel dedicated to San Carlo, one of the earliest dedicated to the saint canonized in 1610 together with that of the Church of San Paolo Converso in Milan of the Angelic Sisters of St. Paul. The task of the decoration should have been assigned to Cerano, however, already busy in Milan, so Guglielmo Caccia was chosen.

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiesa_di_San_Marco_(Novara)

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Church of San Marco (Novara)

1. Duomo of Novara – Palazzo Natta loop from Novara

2. Basilica of San Gaudenzio – Duomo of Novara loop from Sant'Antonio

3. Basilica of San Gaudenzio – Basilica of San Gaudenzio loop from Novara

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