{"id":22576,"date":"2020-11-30T11:04:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T10:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/arte-e-cultura\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:40:22","slug":"san-cristoforo-oratory","status":"publish","type":"arte-e-cultura","link":"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/","title":{"rendered":"S Cristoforo Oratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once known as <em>Death Oratory<\/em> due to the presence of a fraternity giving assistance during funeral rites.<br \/>\nIt was probably carried out by Valmagini and the dome was frescoed by Bibiena.<br \/>\nIt was built on demand of the Death Fraternity, which has been based in Santa Maria dell&#8217;Argine Church since 1260 .<br \/>\nIn the 16th Century the religious association moved to San Silvestro Church, also known as &#8216;Old Death&#8217; church.<br \/>\nSan Cristoforo Church, known as &#8216;New Death Church&#8217; was built starting from 1686 and inaugurated in 1690. Closed during the French Period, it was reopened during the Restoration Period, but in the mean time the fraternity has ceased to exist.<br \/>\nAfter several restoration sessions, in the Sixties and recently, it was reopened in 2003.<br \/>\nIt belongs to the &#8216;oratory typology&#8217;, that is to say a culpt place conceived for a group of people: San Cristoforo oratory is public. Its cozy and central plan suggests the idea of an intimate place, built for a community.<br \/>\nThe building certainly derives from a cooperation between Bibiena and the dukes architect Domenico Valmagini; the architect used here his scenographer&#8217;s culture from a urbanistic point of view, putting into practice thecorner view created by Bibiena.<br \/>\nSan Cristoforo Oratory, located in the Northern part of the city inside the Roman castrum, is on the corner of two road axis and allows the foreshortening perception from several points of view.<br \/>\nThe tympanum fa\u00e7ade is characterised by the application of the gigantic ionic order to double thickness pilaster strips.<br \/>\nThe interior has a theatre-like organisation as that makes it suitable for mystery plays, thanks to the combination of real architecture, represented by niches and four stages, and of painted architecture carried out by Bibiena and Natali.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once known as Death oratory due to the presence of a fraternity giving assistance during funeral rites. It was probably carried out by Valmagini;the dome was frescoed by Bibiena. Its the headquarters of S. Cristoforo Sacred Music Institute.Services: the oratory is the headquarters of \u2018S. Cristoforo Sacred Music Institute\u2019, managed by the no-profit association bearing the same name, whose members are Piacenza-Bobbio diocese and \u2018Progetto Musica\u2019 association. since January 2005, ithas also been the headquarters of \u2018V.L.Ciampi\u2019 band. The three associations based here, organise, individually or with third subjects,cultural events like: concerts, exhibitions, presentations, conferences, recitals, shows. The premises may be rented, upon agreement with the peole in charge of\u2019S. Cristoforo Sacred Music Institute\u2019.information It was built on demand of the Death Fraternity, which has been based in Santa Maria dell\u2019Argine Church since 1260 . In the 16th century the religious association moved to San Silvestro Church, also known as \u2018Old Death\u2019 church. San Cristoforo Church, known as \u2018New Death Church\u2019 was built starting from 1686 and inaugurated in 1690; closed during the French Period, it was reopened during the Restoration Period, but in the mean time the fraternity has ceased to exist. After several restoration sessions, the first one in the sixties and the last one recently, it was reopened as the headquarters of \u2018San Cristoforo Sacred Music Institute\u2019 in spring 2003. It belongs to the \u2018oratory typology\u2019, that is to say a culpt place conceived for a group of people: San Cristoforo oratory is public, and its cozy, central plan, suggests the idea of an intimate place, built for a community . The building certainly derives from a cooperation between Bibiena and the dukes architect Domenico Valmagini; the architect used here his scenographer\u2019s culture from a urbanistic point of view, putting into practice thecorner view created by Bibiena. San Cristoforo Oratory, located in the Northern Part of the city, inside the Roman castrum, is on the corner of two road axis, and allows the foreshortening perception from several points of view . The tympanum fa\u00e7ade is characterised by the application of the gigantic ionic order to double thickness pilaster strips. The interior has a theatre-like organisation as that makes it suitable for mystery plays, thanks to the combination of real architecture, represented by niches and four stages, and of painted architecture carried out by Bibiena and Natali.","protected":false},"featured_media":26200,"template":"","territorio":[939],"categorie_arte_e_cultura":[924],"class_list":["post-22576","arte-e-cultura","type-arte-e-cultura","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","territorio-piacenza-en","categorie_arte_e_cultura-religious-architecture"],"acf":{"accessibilita_disabili":"","orario":"<p>For information here the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.museopoesia.it\/il-museo\/visitare-il-museo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","tariffe":"","location":{"lat":"45.0537144","lng":"9.6965896","address":"Via Gregorio X,17 Piacenza"},"chiusura_settimanale":"","contatti_iat":false,"iat":30186,"localita":33156},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>S Cristoforo Oratory - Visit Piacenza<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The San Cristoforo Oratory, once known as Death Oratory due to the name of a fraternity, was frescoed by Bibiena.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"S Cristoforo Oratory - Visit Piacenza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The San Cristoforo Oratory, once known as Death Oratory due to the name of a fraternity, was frescoed by Bibiena.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Visit Piacenza\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-10-24T09:40:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SanCristoforo.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1803\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/\",\"name\":\"S Cristoforo Oratory - Visit Piacenza\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SanCristoforo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-11-30T10:04:48+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-10-24T09:40:22+00:00\",\"description\":\"The San Cristoforo Oratory, once known as Death Oratory due to the name of a fraternity, was frescoed by Bibiena.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/san-cristoforo-oratory\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SanCristoforo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/visitpiacenza.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/SanCristoforo.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":1803,\"caption\":\"San Cristoforo, Piacenza, ph. 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