Description
The church of San Pietro Incarnario looks out from the top of a tall flight of steps onto the start of Stradone San Fermo, in the center of Verona: outside, a sober neoclassical facade; underneath, the remains of a church built before 955.
Of that building the crypt survives, where a fresco of the Crucifixion with an archaic look, probably from the 11th century, still holds on to a pillar. Up in the church hall are the canvases and frescoes of Luigi Frisoni; on the high altar, the altarpiece by Felice Brusasorzi. The bell tower, with its mullioned windows and cone-shaped roof, dates from the 15th century.
The name comes from the “carnarium” that stood on the site before the church: in Roman and early medieval times the word meant both a slaughterhouse and a cemetery. After the damage of World War II the facade was moved back a full seven meters to make way for traffic.
Of that building the crypt survives, where a fresco of the Crucifixion with an archaic look, probably from the 11th century, still holds on to a pillar. Up in the church hall are the canvases and frescoes of Luigi Frisoni; on the high altar, the altarpiece by Felice Brusasorzi. The bell tower, with its mullioned windows and cone-shaped roof, dates from the 15th century.
The name comes from the “carnarium” that stood on the site before the church: in Roman and early medieval times the word meant both a slaughterhouse and a cemetery. After the damage of World War II the facade was moved back a full seven meters to make way for traffic.