Church of San Vincenzo Confessore - Camaiore - Tuscany

The church dedicated to San Vincenzo Ferretti, known as San Vincenzo Confessore, was built in the 16th century in a building that is part of the historic center of Camaiore and is located a few steps from the eastern entrance of Via Vittorio Emanuele . The church is also known as the "Church of Sorrows" because of an 18th-century oil painting depicting the Madonna of Sorrows, Saint Dominic and Saint Genesius, originally placed as an altarpiece but now kept in the Museum of Sacred Art. The facade, which was rebuilt in the 19th century, is characterized by a mortar-like Ionic-style building, reminiscent of a Greco-Roman temple with a triangular pediment. In the center is a marble doorway surmounted by a lunette, above which is a window decorated with mortar reliefs. The church has a rectangular ground plan and the presbytery faces southwest. The entrance is characterized by an endonarthex (the part of the church reserved for the unbaptized and penitents), a hall and the main chapel, which is accessible through a serliana motif (an architectural element consisting of a round arch flanked symmetrically by two openings surmounted by an architrave; two columns are placed between the arch and the two openings). The main chapel has painted scenes on the walls and various plastic frames.

Willem Vandenameele