Mantua in the years after the sack of 1630, with the decadence of the Gonzaga and the following each other of the invaders suffered great devastation. Many buildings were destroyed and plundered of every thing. Churches and convents were not spared and were sacked. What survived from the big sale and from the thefts by the end of the 18th C., was definitely carried away by the Napoleonic troops, including paintings and statues. What could not been removed was destroyed. What survived is very little of what existed at the begin of the 17^th C. Napoleon, closed and transformed many churches into barracks. The same policy was adopted by the next Austrian domination and it  lasted until the end of the II^nd World War..

In 1704 a Dutch editor ( P. Mortier) printed a new edition of the view of Mantua, by Bertazzolo, in which we can see the important buildings and the churches. There were 60 churches (here down below), of whom many have been demolished, sold to private owners or adjusted for other uses. On the side list we can consider the ones still existing.

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