Giulio Romano's abbey church at Polirone, with its traditional enclosed forecourt, the Piazza Matilde di Canossa in the foreground
The Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone is a large complex of Benedictine order monastic buildings, including a church and cloisters, located in the town of San Benedetto Po, Province of Mantua, Region of Lombardy, Italy. The complex, now belonging to the city, houses offices, a museum, and is open to visitors.
The Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone is a large complex of Benedictine order monastic buildings, including a church and cloisters, located in the town...
which is why the childless Matilda focused her donation activity on the PolironeAbbey rather than find a suitable heir. Between 6 and 11 May 1111, Matilda...
Biblioteca Marciana (1537), as well as in the reconstruction of the PolironeAbbey by Giulio Romano (1540). The loggias in the lower floor were in the...
beautiful villages of Italy"). It is best known as the location of the PolironeAbbey. "Superficie di Comuni Province e Regioni italiane al 9 ottobre 2011"...
powerful abbeys such as that of Polirone, the Abbey of Santa Giustina in Padua, and Cluny. By the 14th century the abbey had gained more autonomy, funded...
14, 1579, he was ordained in the Cathedral of Arras and moved to the PolironeAbbey, near Mantua (modern town of San Benedetto Po). Lignum Vitae, a large...
Sancti Andreae Ord. Benedict), from 1017 to 1418, from a manuscript in PolironeAbbey, cols. 1069–1084. Anon: Fragments of Sicilian History (Fragmenta Siculae...
have collaborated with the Guelph faction alongside the monks of the PolironeAbbey. Starting from the 12th century they became a dominant family in Mantua...
local church and dedicated it in Simeon's honor. Lazenby, F.D., "Simeon of Polirone, St.", New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2003, The Gale Group Inc. Monks of Ramsgate...
travelers was annexed to the church, and was then placed under the Abbey of Polirone, near Mantua. In 1072, Beatrice of Lotharinga or Beatrice of Bar and...
Mantua, and later became its director. He painted frescoes in Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone between 1750 and 1760. Among his pupils was Giacomo Gatti...
painted altarpieces, all but one of them now lost, for the abbey of Saint Benedict in Polirone, and also decorated Palazzo Mayo in Cadignano (Lama Mocogno...
and in 1507 entered the Benedictine monastery of Polirone near Mantua, one of the most flourishing abbeys of the recently founded Cassinese Congregation...
1559 he provided thirty-one figures for the church at the Abbey of San Benedetto in Polirone. Scholars hold widely varying opinions regarding a tradition...
castle were donated in 1123 by the bishop of Mantua to the abbey of San Benedetto Polirone (a wealthy monastery patronized by Matilda of Tuscany), indicating...
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