San Giovanni Evangelista

The church was built for the Benedectine order between 1498 and 1510 but its elaborate white marble Baroque facade contrasts with the Renaissance architecture of the cloisters and convent. In the Latin-cross interior, a frieze running along the nave was painted in 1522-23 by Correggio, who also decorated with grotesques the nave columns, the entrance to the 5th north cha...