San Rocco | |
Native Name: | Chiesa di San Rocco |
Native Name Lang: | it |
Country: | Italy |
Location: | Piacenza |
Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
Founded Date: | 16th Century |
Dedication: | Saint Roch |
Architectural Type: | Baroque |
San Rocco Church is a Roman Catholic church, located at the corner of Vie Roma and Legnano, two blocks northeast of the Duomo, in central Piacenza, Italy.
It is dedicated to Saint Roch, patron of those afflicted by the Plague.[1] It was constructed in the 16th century.[2]
Commissioned by the Confraternity of San Rocco, while externally plain, the interior of the church was decorated in a rich late-Baroque or Rococo style. The church houses a canvas of Madonna and Saints by Giuseppe Nuvolone, a canvas of the Life of San Rocco by Giuseppe Gorla (1722) and a Glory of San Rocco by Paolo Bozzini.