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Santa Maria di Chiavica, Verona

church building in Verona, Italy

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ19896052 ↗
Source-derived summary

Santa Maria in Chiavica is a former Roman Catholic church, now deconsecrated, in the Renaissance style, located on Via S. Maria in Chiavica number 7 in central Verona, region of Veneto, Italy. The building retains portions of its original Romanesque structure and original fresco and altar decoration, but is now used for theatrical and musical performances.

History

An oratory at the site is said to have been founded in 813 by the Archdeacon Pacifico; but the earliest documents date to the 12th century. By the 16th century, it was affiliated with the church of Sant'Anastasia.

Among the remaining artwork are a Birth of the Virgin and a Nativity of Jesus by Giovanni Battista Lanceni. In the second chapel is a St Francis de Sales and St John Nepomuk by Michelangiola Lanzeni. The frescoes are by Girolamo Costantini. There are also altarpieces by Eduardo Perini, Paolo Farinati, Pasquale Ottino, Giovanni Francesco Caroto, Michelangelo Aliprandi, and Francesco Turchi.

References

Further reading

Giovanni Battista Biancolini, Notizie storiche delle chiese di Verona, Libro secondo, Verona, Alessandro Scolari al Ponte delle Navi, 1749, SBN IT\ICCU\PUV\0392266.

Giuseppe Maria Rossi, Nuova guida di Verona e della sua provincia, Verona, 1854, SBN IT\ICCU\PUV\0562052.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Santa Maria di Chiavica, Verona” as church building in Verona, Italy. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1749, 1854—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Santa, Maria and Chiavica can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as church building in Verona, Italy. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19896052. Authority coordinates are 45.444, 11.000. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1749 and 1854.

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Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Santa Maria di Chiavica, Verona” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.