Nostra Signora di Guastafredda

---

Nostra Signora di Guastafredda (Our Lady of Guastafredda)
Via San Corrado Confalonieri
Piacenza, May 2024

“At the end of the eighteenth century, Lotario Tomba, a well-known architect from Piacenza, was entrusted with the project of a chapel suitable for containing a Marian painting already highly venerated in the mid-seventeenth century, once positioned outside the Convent known as the Convent of the Snow. Still extant, the work depicts the Madonna and Child on the clouds, in a sumptuous dress with an ivory damask background and a starry mantle, flanked by little angels in flight and with the saints Francis of Assisi, Dominic and Carlo Borromeo at her feet.” (Santuario di Nostra Signora di Guastafredda, Piacenzapace)