San Bernardino, Verona

The church's origin are connected to the presence of San Bernardino in the city from 1422, during which he founded a convent of nuns for the order of the Minor Friars and, later, another one for monks.

He was canonized in 1450, six years after his death, and in 1451-1452 his successor Giovanni da  Capestrano, with the bishop of Verona, Francesco Condulmerio, started the construction of a large complex for the order in Verona,[1] with the support of the Venetian doge Francesco Foscari.

The main altarpiece depicts a Madonna and Child with St. Anne and Angels (1579), painted by Bernardino India, while the lunette and flanking pictures depict an Eternal Father and Saints Joseph and Young John the Baptist by Pasquale Ottino.

The altars on the left had an altarpiece depicting Saints Margaret of Cortona, Francis of Assisi, and John by Cavaliere Barca and statues of St Roch and Sebastian by Ceschini.

[3] The fourth chapel, dedicated to St Antony, has frescoes by Domenico Morone (1511), in poor state.

[4] Frescoes by Domenico Morone and his son Francesco can be found also in a hall of the annexed convent.