San Francesco (Bologna)

San Francesco is a church in Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of northern Italy...

, northern Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

.

It was begun in 1236 by Marco da Brescia and his brother Giovanni, a Franciscan

Franciscan

The term Franciscan is commonly used to refer to members of Catholic religious orders, also known as the Orders of Friars Minor, that follow a body of regulations known as "The rule of St. Francis", or a member of one of these orders. As well as Roman Catholic there are also small Old Catholic and...

 monk.

Despite its Romanesque

Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of Medieval Europe, characterised by semi-circular arches, and evolving into the Gothic style, characterised by pointed arches, beginning in the 12th century...

 façade, it is one of the best example of French Gothic style in Italy. This is manifest in the interior, which has a nave and two aisles, in the apse with corridor, in the high vaults divided into six sections (like in Notre-Dame de Paris) with ogival arches, and in the use of buttresses.

The church is home to the monuments of the jurist Accursius and his son Francesco

Franciscus Accursius

This article is about the Italian jurist. For other uses, see Accursius .Accursius was an Italian jurist. He is notable for his organization of the glosses, the medieval comments on Justinian's codification of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis...

, Odofredus

Odofredus

Odofredus was an Italian jurist.He was born at Bologna and studied law under Jacobus Balduinus and Franciscus Accursius. After having practised as an advocate both in Italy and France, he became a law professor at Bologna in 1228...

 and Rolandino dei Romanzi.

See also

• Gothic architecture in Italy