The Oratory del Santo Sepolcro is a renaissance-style chapel or small church located at the beginning of Viale Vittorio Emanuele, just across from Porta Camollia in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy.
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The small chapel with a portico of three arches, with oculi above, was erected in 1603 by Francesco Vanni. He had painted an altarpiece depicting a Dead Jesus.[1] The oratory served a confraternity allied to the once adjacent Ospedale di Santa Croce in Jerusalem, founded likely in 1368.[2]
References
edit- ^ Cenni storico-artistici di Siena e suoi suburbii, by Ettore Romagnoli, (1840) page 62.
- ^ Il cittadini online, chronicle of middle ages, Il Torrazzo e l’Antiporto di Camollia, 14 February 2014.