Santo Rosario, Comacchio

The Chiesa del Santo Rosario or Church of the Rosary is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in Piazza del Popolo in the city of Comacchio, in the province of Ferrara, region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

The interior houses a main altarpiece depicting a Madonna of the Rosary with Sts Dominic & Giustina (1640-1650) by Cesare Mezzogori.

The painting is a reworking of the design of Guido Reni's Pallione del Voto o della Peste (1630).

Mezzogori has only two saints who receive a rosary from the Virgin and Child (in same posture as the Reni painting); an angel in the lower corner, points to battle, and has a banner that states "Non armis sed rosis" or "not with arms but with roses (Rosary)", implying the prayer granted victory.

Two other altarpieces in the church are an Annunciation attributed to Jacopo Bambini and a Beheading of St John the Baptist by Carlo Bononi.

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