Address: Viale Marconi-Via Firenze, annexed to the “Osservanza” Cemetery
Explaination: This is the ancient Manfredi church dedicated to San Girolamo and belonging to the Santa Perpetua convent. The original 1400’s shapes have been masked by the renovations of Pietro Tomba in 1828, whilst the façade, with its large neo-classic pronaos inserted in a portico hemicycle, is the work of Costantino Galli in the years 1858-59. These imposing works, extended also to the adjacent convent with cloisters, were aimed at the realisation of the large Osservanza cemetery complex that is still the only one in Faenza. The emblematic church of Tomba neo-classic taste above all gives an exemplar image of Faentine funeral art and sculptural art of the early 1800’s, with the works of Ballanti Graziani (stucco statues of the Franciscan saints and various tombs such as that of Cavina, designed by Felice Giani). On the left side there is also an important 1400’s wooden crucifix brought back by critics to a homogenous group of at least four examples with its main ancestor in the Duomo the work of a Nordic sculptor, perhaps German.
