Lodi, San Filippo

The church of San Filippo is remarkable for its attractive facade, characterised by a rising rhythm in the main body of the monument: the slightly convex appearance, with a double order of pilasters spanned by a moulded head-piece, is given movement by the curved and broken tympanum crowned by statues of angels, and by two flights of steps with slightly concave balustrades. The building of the Sartorio began in 1740 with the sacristy, after the earlier Oratory church, built in 1639 parallel to the street, had been demolished. The interior is a Greek cross, which is prolonged longitudinally in the presbytery: but the corners have been displaced to give the floor plan a continuous, mobile perimeter, accentuated by the fresco decoration, which simulates, in polychrome paste, a marble covering with capricious motives of imitiation rocaille shells. In the cupola there is a fresco of “The Assumption”, and in the pendentive we note four groups of Apostles. in the vault of the presbytery we find “The Glory of San Filippo Neri” and in the lunette of the apse there is a fresco of “The Crucifixion”, all these being the work of Carlo Innocenzo Carlo (1750-52). The altars in polychrome marbles and the gates in wrought iron are of the local school; the confessionals and cupboards in the sacresty are by Girolamo Cavanna.
Above the entrance to the church is the wooden choir stall, painted by Federico Ferrari with a Biblical scene, and we find here the valuable organ, dating from 1779, which is by the celebrated organ-makers from Bergamo, the Serassi brothers.