Church of S.Antonino

Explaination: The church was erected in the two years between 1721-1723 on a design by Giuseppe Antonio Soratini, who also designed the Servi church in Faenza. The façade is in regular, well-balanced brick, scanned by four pilaster strips and two niches in the first order that are pendant with the two walled windows in the second. Of major interest inside, at least as far as works of art are concerned, is the major altar in various types of marble designed again by Sorantini and decorated with marble sculptures (angels up high on the gable and angel heads on the table and at the base of the altar) by Gerolamo Bertos, a rare and not well known late Baroque sculptor of possible Venetian origin, famous until now only for a few statues in San Vitale at Ravenna. The churchhas a rough but effective 1400’s wooden crucifix by an unknown Romagnolo engraver, a beautiful altarpiece on the main altar depicting the Holy Trinity (this as actually the ancient name of the church, which only after 1812 took on the name Sant’Antonino, inherited by a nearby suppressed church) dating back to 1723 and attributed to the Bolognaise painter Girolamo Donnini, then two canvases by his Faentine student Francesco Bosi (the “gobbino (hunchback) dei Sinibaldi”) and two ovals by Benedetto Del Buono of Lugo, of the Donnini studio. The modern Via Crucis in ceramics is by the Faentine Riccardo Gatti.