High impact. This baroque cathedral is in the heart of Bologna right on the main street. With a patchwork of styles and architecture, its layers display the depths of this place.

The present interior is emphatically Baroque, giving an impression of majesty and grandeur. Among the works of art are anAnnunciation by Ludovico Carracci (a fresco in the central lunette of the presbytery), a Romanesque Crucifixion in cedarwood, and a sculptured group in terracotta depicting the Compianto su Cristo morto ("Lament over the Dead Christ"), by Alfonso Lombardi, of the early 16th century. In the apse are early 20th-century paintings by Cesare Mauro Trebbi (1847–1931) including Saint Anne in Glory.Read more

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