Basilica of Saint Dominic

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Native name Basilica di San Domenico
Location Piazza San Domenico, Bologna, Italy
Coordinates 44° 29′ 22.20″ N, 11° 20′ 40.20″ E Link to Google Maps  Link to OpenStreetMap
Established
Website http://www.domenicani.bo.it/


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Exterior [edit]

  • column with the statue of St. Domini's Blessing (1632)
  • statue of St. Dominic's Blessing
  • lunette with a (copy of a) painting by Lucia Casalini-Torelli (1677-1762)

Arks of the jurists [edit]

Interiors [edit]

  • nave

  • looking at the entrance

  • looking towards the altar

  • apsis with choir

  • tomb of Alessandro Tartagni (1477)

  • St Thomas Aquinas and St. Benedict; fresco (14th c.) in the left transept

  • Tombstone for King Enzio (left transept)

  • Madonna with Child (unknown artist)

  • papier-mâché bust of Ven. Serafino Capponi, a theologian (died 1615)

  • Monument to Taddeo Pepoli (died 1337); Chapel of St Michael the Archangel

  • San Domenico11.jpg

Rosary (or Guidotti) Chapel [edit]

  • Rosary chapel

  • Rosary chapel

  • Altar by Floriano Ambrosini (1589)

  • Assumption, cupola of the Rosary chapel

  • Organ (once played by Mozart), Rosary chapel

  • Organ

  • Tombstone of Guido Reni and Elisabetta Sirani

  • Tombstone of Giovanni Guidotti, founder of the chapel

Ark of Saint Dominic (in St. Dominic's chapel) [edit]

  • St Dominic's Glory by Guido Reni (1613-1615) in St. Dominic's Chapel

  • True face of Saint Dominic.

  • True face of Saint Dominic

  • Ark of Saint Dominic in the Chapel of the Saint

  • Front side

  • Ark of St. Dominic - lower front part

  • Ark of St. Dominic - upper front part

  • Angel holding a candlestick by the young Michelangelo

  • Front scene by Nicola Pisano and assistants.

  • "St Dominic resurrects Napoleone Orsini after a fall from his horse and delivers him to his mother" by Nicola Pisano and assistants

  • Saint Dominic (detail of previous photo)

  • St Francis (by Niccolò dell' Arca)

  • San Petronio (by Michelangelo)

  • St Dominic (by Niccolò dell' Arca)

  • San Floriano (by Niccolò dell' Arca)

  • Right side : miracle of the bread; Back side : (left) Healing of Reginald, (right) vision of pope Innocent III

  • Backside + left side : St Dominic touched by God's Hand in the basilica of St Peter in Rome

  • San Procolo (by Michelangelo)

  • La Pietà (by Niccolò dell' Arca); (upper part of the) Ark of Saint Dominic

  • Vision of Brother Guala of St Dominic being taken to heaven on a white stairway by Christ and Mary (by Alfonso Lombardi)

  • Adoration of Christ by the Magi (by Alfonso Lombardi)

  • Baptism of St Dominic; Dominic sleeping on the floor; Dominic sells his parchments to feed the people (by Alfonso Lombardi); candlestick-holding angel (by Niccolò dell' Arca.)

  • Golden reliquary with the head of Saint Dominic by Jacopo Roseto (1383) (back side of the Ark of Saint Dominic)

  • Reliquary (detail)

  • Reliquary (detail)

  • Photo of the remains of Saint Dominic

St. Catherine's Chapel [edit]

  • San Domenico64.jpg

  • The mystic wedding of St. Catherine, Virgin and Martyr (1501) (by Filippino Lippi)

  • "St Catherine's mystic communion" by Francesco Brizzi (1546-1625)

Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas (right transept) [edit]

  • "St. Thomas writing the Holy Sacrament" (1662) by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (also called Guercino)

Choir [edit]

  • left side

  • right side

  • lectern

  • Left wing of the choir; intarsia inlaid by fra Damiano Zambelli (1541-1549), carved by his brother fra Stefano da Bergamo and finished by fra Bernardino da Bologna (1551)

  • "Adoration of the Magi" by Bartolomeo Cesi (1556-1629); Golden altar piece in the choir

  • Left wing (detail) of the choir

Museum [edit]

  • Pietà (1495) by Baccio da Montelupo

  • Reliquary of Saint Louis IX, king of France (end 13th c.)

  • Collection of reliquaries, chalices and monstrances

  • Polychromed terracotta of Saint Dominic by Nicolò dell' Arca (1493)

  • Fresco of Madonna with Child and Saint Dominic

  • The Paschal Lamb (sometimes attributed to Giorgio Vasari)

  • Madonna with Child, Saint Dominic and Vincenzo Ferreri (ca. 1773) by Ubaldo Gandolfi (1728-1781)

  • Story of San Girolamo, intarsia by fra Damiano da Bergamo (1530-1535)

  • Geometric figure (first half of 1500's), intarsia by fra Damiano Zambelli da Bergamo (1480-1549)

  • Geometric figure (1537), intarsia by fra Damiano da Bergamo

St. Dominic's cell [edit]

  • Cell where Saint Dominic died

  • Remains of the table where Saint Dominic once ate

Chapterhouse [edit]

  • Oldest image of Saint Dominic (unknown author, 14th century)

Convent [edit]

  • Map of the convent and the basilica

  • Monastery garden and ambulatory

  • Ambulatory with stone slabs

  • exterior of St. Dominic's chapel, as seen form the monastery garden; column with St Dominic, erected for the visit of pope Julius II (1507)

  • Madonna with Child and Saint Dominic

  • tombstone

  • library

  • Library with painting "Ecstasy of St. Thomas Aquinas" by Franceschini

  • old library

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