Dome of Montichiari Church Santa Maria Assunta

The Dome of Montichiari church Santa Maria Assunta, was commissioned by the Bishop of Brescia Querini and started building in 1729.

Dome of Montichiari Church Santa Maria Assunta was not completed all at once but rather in two part in 1743 and the other in 1765. At the end of the construction of the title were placed statues of the Assumption to center, south of St. George and St. Pancras in the north. In 1785 work began that later ended up in 1796 to build the dome covered with copper plates 900 and that same year was a statue of the Redeemer blessing. Inside there are seven altars, main altar there is a shovel that is the assumption of the Virgin Mary and in the bottom group of the Apostles, a work of 1778. Then there is the altar of the SS. Sacramento Carrara marble with green entered the Tabernacle to lapis lazuli and shovel Romanino representing The Last Supper. Then the altar of SS. Relics, a beautiful marble ark of the seventeenth century which houses the relics of San Pancrazio and the reliquary of the Holy Cross with 24 precious stones. It remains the altar dedicated to a wooden crucifix, one at Holy Rosary, one to S. Antonio and one in San Giuseppe.