San Francesco, Modena

It was decided to move to this site in 1244, and construction began of a monastery and a church dedicated to the recently canonized Francis of Assisi.

Reconstruction occurred in the church starting in 1535, causing the destruction of the lateral chapels and movement of the choir into the apse behind the altar, and covering much of the previous painted decoration.

The interior was noted to have an 1840 monument celebrating the ebbing of the cholera epidemic in Modena, sculpted by Luigi Mainoni.

In the left apse there is a large terracotta statuary group of thirteen statues depicting a Deposition from the Cross by Antonio Begarelli from 1531.

[1] In the choir of the nave, is a canvas depicting Saint Francis receiving the stigmata by Adeodato Malatesta.