Description
The Oratory of San Rocco, on Via Vallerozzi in Siena, is the church of the Contrada della Lupa: a plain brick facade, with an oculus, a 17th-century statue of the saint and a travertine portal, which hides walls painted from floor to ceiling inside.
The hall is entirely frescoed with the Stories of Job, the work of 17th-century Sienese painters. In the adjoining Chapel of San Rocco there are a 16th-century statue of the saint in painted terracotta and the Stories of Saint Roch by Crescenzio Gambarelli and Rutilio Manetti.
Outside, on a column, stands the Roman she-wolf donated by the city of Rome, and next to it the contrada's baptismal fountain, with a bronze she-wolf by Emilio Montagnani from 1962.
The oratory was built from 1511 by the lay confraternity of San Rocco; when it was dissolved, in 1789, it passed to the Lupa, which also has its museum here.
The hall is entirely frescoed with the Stories of Job, the work of 17th-century Sienese painters. In the adjoining Chapel of San Rocco there are a 16th-century statue of the saint in painted terracotta and the Stories of Saint Roch by Crescenzio Gambarelli and Rutilio Manetti.
Outside, on a column, stands the Roman she-wolf donated by the city of Rome, and next to it the contrada's baptismal fountain, with a bronze she-wolf by Emilio Montagnani from 1962.
The oratory was built from 1511 by the lay confraternity of San Rocco; when it was dissolved, in 1789, it passed to the Lupa, which also has its museum here.