Chiesa di San Massimo
Chiesa di San Massimo rises in Italy as a compact neoclassical church with a measured, solemn façade. Carlo Sada designed the building, whose single nave opens into a Latin-cross transept beneath a slender dome.
Work began in the 1840s, and the church opened on 14 June 1853. The interior dome rises about 45 metres and carries nineteenth-century paintings by Paolo Emilio Morgari. Francesco Gonin painted the pendentives and the apse, where Saint Massimo preaches resistance against Attila. Prophets, evangelists and Salvatore Revelli’s Deposition relief give the façade its sculptural focus.
Incendiary bombs struck the church on 8 December 1942, damaging the steps, forecourt and central nave. Explosive bombs followed during the night of 13 July 1943. In autumn and winter 1943 to 1944, Don Pompeo Borghezio’s parish sheltered resistance meetings and persecuted people. Look towards the apse, where painted preaching preserves a memory of protection and civic solidarity.
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