San Carlo Borromeo, Ferrara

San Carlo Borromeo is a Baroque, Roman Catholic church located on Corso Giovecca #191, a block east of the Castello Estense in Ferrara, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Construction of this church took place from 1612-1623, at the site of a chapel dedicated to Saint Filippo e Giacomo, designed by Alberto Schiatti, for the hospital of Santa Anna, which once extended parallel to the facade.

The nave has stucco statues of the four doctors of the church: Augustine, Gregory the Great, Jerome, and Ambrose by an 18th-century sculptors of the Venetian-school.

[5] In the center oval, Avanzi painted the Glory of the Virgin with Saints Maurelio and Carlo Borromeo.

[6] An inventory from 1773 noted to the right of the main altar is the altarpiece of the Virgin and Saints George, Maurelio, and Dominic by Domenico, son of Tintoretto.

Facade of San Carlo
St Augustine statue, facade.
Giuseppe Avanzi, Glory of the Virgin with Saints Maurelio and Carlo Borromeo (1674)