Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Chapelle Sainte-Croix ou des Pénitents blancs
Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Alpes-Maritimes, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit)
- Protection
- inscrit MH
- Extent of protection
- Chapelle (cad. C 332) : inscription par arrêté du 17 septembre 1997
- Protection dates
- 1997/09/17 : inscrit MH
- Type
- chapelle
- Main period of construction
- 2e moitié 17e siècle
- Architect or builder
- PARINI (sculpteur)
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune
- Address
- rue du Docteur-Cagnoli
- Commune
- Saint-Martin-Vésubie
- Département
- Alpes-Maritimes
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 44.06972, 7.25655
- Mérimée reference
- PA06000005
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(87) Pedemontanae." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Fondation de la confrérie des Pénitents blancs de Saint-Martin probablement à la fin du 16e siècle. La chapelle actuelle date de la seconde moitié du 17e siècle : forme baroque des fenêtres, entablement stuqué... Façade remaniée au 19e siècle (fronton et faux décor de pilastres peint en trompe-l'oeil en 1843 ; trois bas-reliefs du sculpteur Parini en 1848).
English translation
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History
Foundation of the confraternity of the White Penitents of Saint-Martin probably at the end of the 16th century. The present chapel dates from the second half of the 17th century: baroque form of the windows, stuccoed entablature... Façade reworked in the 19th century (pediment and false decoration of pilasters painted in trompe-l'oeil in 1843; three bas-reliefs by the sculptor Parini in 1848).
Nearby in the register
- Chapelle de la Miséricorde ou des Pénitents noirschapelleunder 1 mi
- Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomptionégliseunder 1 mi
- Château Gubernatis ou palais Gubernatischâteauunder 1 mi
- Chapelle Saint-Sébastien, dite Sainte-Clairechapelle1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.