Chiesa di San Bartolomeo
In Chiesa di San Bartolomeo, what once defined this corner was a Roman Catholic church later demolished in the second half of the 19th century. The architect Maurizio Garavaglia designed the present structure in 1864, replacing an earlier church of the same name dating to the 1500s on a nearby site. An engraving of that former church exists by Marc’Antonio Dal Re. Inside the older church was an icon depicting the Madonna del Buon Aiuto—Our Lady of Good Help—initially attributed to Lucas Cranach, and it had been donated by Countess Teresa Gordone Serbelloni when the Ottoman army was nearing the Siege of Vienna. That earlier building also accumulated aristocratic tombs and was the site of disturbances during riots in 1848, before urban renewal led to its demolition. …
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