Santa Maria degli Angeli, Chivasso

Santa Maria degli Angeli is a late-Baroque style, Roman Catholic church located in the town of Chivasso located in the Metropolitan City of Turin in the region of Piedmont, Italy.

History and description

A church at this site was completed by 1607 under the patronage of the Confraternity of the Santissimo Nome di Gesù. The present church was the product of a refurbishment starting in 1737 under the designs of Bernardo Vittone and his colleague Paolo Lorenzo Garrone. Vittone helped erect, for example, the bell tower. The interior includes a number of canvases painted by Giovanni Battista Grassi and depicting the Life of a young Jesus, as well as two Dominican order priests venerated and honored respectively by the confraternity: St Vincent Ferrer and the Blessed Angelo Carletti da Chivasso. In a niche in the choir is a wooden statuary group carved by Carlo Giuseppe Plura, depicting the Maddona of the Assumption. The church also contains a Gothic style polychrome painted wood Crucifix.