Modena

Cathedral Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta (Basilica Catedrale di Santa Maria Assunta)

Edited by

Daniele Pascale

Places of worship

Other denominations

Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta (Duomo)

D'Este's People

Alfonso IV, Francesco I

Artists / Humanists

Achille Sammarini, Antonio Loraghi, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Fermo Forti, Giovanni Battista Falcetti, Lelio Rossi, Tommaso Bisi

Description

Despite 18th- and 19th-century modifications, the monumental Cathedral of Carpi still retains the Renaissance style imparted on it by Alberto Pio, its founder. Designed by Baldassarre Peruzzi, it is perhaps the most important sacred building of the High Renaissance in the region: the plan traces, with some significant modifications, Bramante’s designs for the basilica of St. Peter’s in Rome.

Left unfinished upon the fall of the Pio seigniory, it was resumed in the Este era and completed only in the 18th century.

Useful information

Address

piazza dei Martiri

Municipality

CARPI

Province

Modena

Diocese

Diocesi di Carpi

Visitability of the place

Open to visits

Website

https://monasteriemiliaromagna.it/it/monastero/7508-cattedrale-di-santa-maria-assunta-duomo

Tourer

https://www.tourer.it/mappa?id=1571