The Church of Sant’Agostino

Saint Joseph Calasanctius

  • Besides the sculptures of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino and Saint Rita, the left transept contains two canvases representing Saint Joseph Calasanctius, or José de Calasanz, as he is called in Spanish, his native tongue. The first was painted by Giovanni Bruni in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the second by the Neapolitan painter Sebastiano Conca in 1763. Both canvases make clear the . . .