Church of Inviolata

Church of Inviolata

to Riva on the main course leading to Arco

Church of Inviolata wanted by Count Giannangelo Gaudenzio Madruzzo, his wife Alfonsina Gonzaga and supported by Bishop Carlo Gaudenzio Madruzzo to contain a sacred image that had aroused great devotion from the populace rivana, Madonna with Child between Santi Rocco and Sebastiano, painted by Bartolomeo Mangiavino da Salò in 1600. The building was started in 1603 and finished in 1609, but it is uncertain whether the project was a Portuguese architect or Brescia Pietro Maria Bagnatore; the decoration and the stuccoes continued for several years and they worked on the Lombard Davide Reti for stucco, Martino Teofilo Polish for the frescoes and Pietro Ricchi for the oil paintings. The bell tower was built in 1682 separated by the church, with masonry and stone canton, two bell-ring and copper cover. Next to the church was a convent originally commissioned to the order of the Gerolimini but in 1807 this was suppressed; was then entrusted to the Conventual Minor of St. Francis, but this was also suppressed in 1848, so in 1877 it was given to the Daughters of the Sacred Heart until 1965. The Church of the Inviolata is in a Baroque style with an externally square and internally octagonal roof, covered by a dome with clichés; the side archives repeat the main one which is made up of masonry with cantonals in stone, a column portal and architrave overhanged by a triangular pediment.