Assialità e centralità nello spazio sacro barocco. Lombardia, Piemonte, Liguria

This essay analyzes the typological panorama in which the layout and the spatiality of the collegiate church of S. Giovanni Battista in Morbegno are inserted. For this purpose, a wide selection of baroque churches is considered, in an area that includes not only the ancient Duchy of Milan but also some neighboring regions, such as Piedmont and the Republic of Genoa - linked to the current Lombardy from an artistic and cultural point of view; however, there are references to contemporary architectural experiences in Rome, propulsive centre of new baroque ideas. Finally, the purpose of this work was to understand the origins of the typological matrices of the church of Morbegno and to insert the latter in the evolutionary lines of the Baroque style.