page_title: Santa Cristina, Bologna
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Santa Cristina, Bologna / History
caption_attribution_description: Servizio fotografico&#160;: Bologna, 1968 / Paolo Monti. - Strisce: 6, Fotogrammi complessivi: 34&#160;: Negativo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ pellicola&#160;; 35 mm. - ((I fotogrammi hanno una doppia numerazione. . - Sul portanegativi: Nikon Agfa 21. - Sul dorso del portanegativi Monti specifica: "Matteucci. Alfa". - Occasione: Pubblicazione: Anna Maria MATTEUCCI, Carlo Francesco Dotti e l'architettura bolognese del Settecento, Bologna, Edizioni Alfa, 1968
context_page_description: Santa Cristina or Santa Cristina della Fondazza is a deconsecrated Roman Catholic church and adjacent former convent, located on Piazzeta Morandi in central Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy. Since 2007, the barrel-vaulted church has served as a performance hall for concerts, mainly of choir and classical formats, while the convent houses the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Bologna.
context_section_description: A church at the site was putatively established at the site in 1247 by Camaldolese nuns. The present church was erected in 1602 by Giulio della Torre, a pupil of Domenico Tibaldi. By the Napoleonic era, the church was used for a time as barracks. The church has two sculptures of St Peter and St Paul by Guido Reni, known almost exclusively for his paintings. The main altarpiece is an Ascension by Ludovico Carracci. Other sculptures in the church  were completed by Giuseppe Maria Mazza and G. Fiorini and paintings by Giacomo Francia (Nativity, c. 1552); Francesco Salviati (Madonna and Child with Saints, c. 1540); Lucio Massari (Visitation , 1607); Bernardino Baldi (Coronation of the Virgin, before 1615); and Bartolomeo Passerotti (Martyrdom of St Catherine) and his son Tiburzio (Annunciation and Christ carrying cross and St Veronica); Domenico Maria Canuti (St Cristina); Giovanni Battista Bertusio (Resurrection of Christ, early 17th-century); and Mastelletta
  The adjacent Camaldolese monastery is now the Department of Visual Arts of the University of Bologna. It houses a fresco of the Crucifixion by the school of Lorenzo Costa.
  The hall of Santa Cristina is large, short chamber concerts, often using period instruments, are performed at San Colombano.
caption: Detail of the bell tower.
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