Piacenza - San Sisto

To the northwest of the Municipal Museum, near the northern edge of Piacenza, is the church of San Sisto (1499-1511), in Early Renaissance style, with a Baroque facade and a fine Ionic colonnade. It was for this church that Raphael painted the "Sistine Madonna" (c. 1515), which was sold to Dresden in 1754 and replaced by a copy (c. 1725). In the north transept is the tombstone (designed in 1593) of Margaret Duchess of Parma, wife of Ottavio Farnese.