Interior Decoration
The Bergamo monks who left the church to the Jesuits took all the furniture to their new home on the Piazza Colonna. The new owners decided to decorate the interior of the church using the three fifteenth century altars that remained.
The altar of the left wall was built around 1575 by Francesco da Volterra. It has an elegant aedicula with two pilasters with grooved sides and a triangular tympanum made of paonazzetto. The opposite altar is similar but complementary and is made of stucco. The main altar is decorated with a pair of columns made from African marble. It is crowned with a typanum with a lunette.
The left altar has a painting by Michelangelo Cerruti, depicting The Sacred Heart adored by the Saints John Nepomunk and Louis Gonzaga (1730s). Cerruti was commissioned by the Jesuits to complete paintings for all the altars. These included the Virgin appears to San Macuto for the main altar, and a Glory of St Joseph for the right altar. The San Macuto painting depicts the church of San Macuto and the city of Saint Malo. Previously the church had painings by Girolamo Muziano, Giuseppe Peruzzini, and Durante Alberti.
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