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SSVincenzoEAnastasio_1 * Faced with the famous Trevi Fountain is the church of Ss.Vincenzo and Anastasio, which boasts one of the most beautiful baroque facades of Rome. Until fourteenth century was known only as S. Anastasio de Trivium but also with the title, maintained until 1876, Parish Pontifical or because situated not far from the palace Quirinale, then papal residence, in the apse is because we keep in special loculi, precordi (ie bodies enclosed in the chest cavity near the heart) were removed before imbalsamare the body of pontiffs. Sixtus V was the first to inaugurate the use in 1590, mantenutosi to Leo XIII, who died in 1903: this macabre tradition was interrupted by the fact next pope, Pius X. The church was completely rebuilt between 1644 and 1650 by the Young Martino Longhi request of Cardinal Mazzarino, as witnessed by the coat topped by a Cardinals hat pair of angels takes in a beautiful exhibition at the center of the pediment threefold. The facade, a newsstand on two orders and covered with travertine, also has some special features: firstly the presence of 18 columns that the church earned the name Reed: 10 in the lower and 6 in the upper, more 2 placed on the sides of the large central window. Moreover, the presence of two statues of naked women that support breast, arms raised, the entablature of the second order and the presence of a female bust above the portal, in the middle of the second gable arcuato, examples unique to Rome for a church. The bust seems to refer to a nephew of the cardinal, for some Mary Mancini, mistress of Louis XIV and wife of Prince Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, for others the fascinating Ortensia, which, by his uncle refused to two distinguished and wealthy suitors such as Charles II England and Pedro II of Portugal, he married the Marquis Armand de la Porte de la Meilleraye, which then separated to go to live with the knight de Saint-Evremond in England: both still anything but holy! Inside, the classroom with three per side chapels, houses a fresco painter Francis Manno portraying the Ss.Vincenzo, Anastasio and Camillo, while the main altar there is a blade of Francis De Rosa. The artist was buried embalmed but without monument or plaque in 1835, but repeated and laborious searches occurred in 1927 to find the tomb gave negative results, so that someone claimed that after the funeral, the body has been thrown away, considering the Pinelli unworthy of lying next to the remains of popes. The mystery remains, but the Institute of Studies Romany wanted to affix a plaque in memory of the artist (pictured right), as a witness to the certainty of his remains in the church. * 1536 x 2048 * (1.52MB)
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SanGirolamodeCroati_1 * San Girolamo dei Croati (Saint Jerome of the Croats)[1] is the national Catholic church of Croatia on Via Tomacelli in the Campus Martius, Rome. It was first built in 1587 for the refugees from areas ruled by the Turks, and dedicated to St Jerome, who was from Dalmatia. The land had been given to them in 1453 (the year of the Fall of Constantinople) by Pope Nicholas V, for the construction of a hospice. It is now a chapel of the Croatian College and is only open to visitors by arrangement with the College. * 3072 x 2304 * (3.47MB)
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SanGirolamodeCroati_3 * This photo is from outside the Ara Pacis Museum with a red cube as part of a exhibition of Valentino fashions. The new Ara Pacis Museum in Rome opened in the spring of 2006. The museum was designed by the international architect Richard Meier and has been subject to much controversy and criticism. The Ara Pacis, a more than 2,000 year old Altar of Peace that was used (ironically) for sacrifices, is a commanding work of Roman art and architecture that had been lost to civilization for centuries. * 3072 x 2304 * (3.25MB)
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S.CarloCatinari * San Carlo ai Catinari is an early-Baroque style church in Rome. The attribute ai Catinari refers to the presence, at the time of its construction, of many dishmaker shops in the same street of the church. The church was commissioned by the Order of the Barnabites and funded by the Milanese community in Rome to honour their fellow Milanese San Carlo Borromeo. It is one of at least three Roman churches dedicated to San Carlo, including San Carlo al Corso and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (San Carlino). The main design was by Rosato Rosati between 1612-20. The drab, travertine fasade was designed by Giovanni Battista Soria and construction occurred during 1635-38. * 1536 x 2048 * (578KB)
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S.PietroInVincoli_1 * San Pietro in Vincoli (Saint Peter in Chains) is a basilica in Rome, best known for housing Michelangelo's statue Moses. The Basilica Eudoxiana was first built in 432-440 to house the relic of the chains that bound Saint Peter while imprisoned in Jerusalem. According to legend, when Empress Eudoxia (wife of Emperor Valentinian III) gifted the chains to Pope Leo I; legend holds that while he compared them to the chains of St. Peter's first imprisonment in the Mamertine Prison in Rome, the two chains miraculously fused together. The chains are kept in a reliquary under the main altar in the basilica. The basilica underwent several restorations and rebuildings, among them a restoration by Pope Adrian I, rebuilding by Pope Sixtus IV and by Pope Julius II. There was also a renovation in 1875. The front portico, attributed to Baccio Pontelli, was added in 1475. The cloister (1493-1503) has been attributed to Giuliano da Sangallo. * 2048 x 1536 * (1.68MB)
SanBartolomio_2 * San Bartolomeo all'Isola is a basilica church in Rome, founded at the end of the tenth century by Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor. It contains the relics of St. Bartholomew the Apostle, and is located on Tiber Island, on the site of the former temple of Aesculapius, which had cleansed the island of its ill-repute and established its reputation as a hospital, continued today. Emperor Otto built this church, which was initially dedicated to Adalbert of Prague, friend of Otto. It was renovated by Pope Paschal II in 1113 and again in 1180, after its rededication upon the arrival of the relics of the apostle Bartholomew. The relics were sent to Rome from Benevento, where they had arrived from Armenia in 809. The relics are located within an ancient Roman porphyry bath with lions' heads, under the main altar. The marble wellhead (puteale) bears the figures of the Savior, Adalbert and Bartholomew and Otto III. The church was badly damaged by a flood in 1557 and was reconstructed, with its present Baroque fasade, in 1624, to designs of Orazio Torriani. Further restorations were undertaken in 1852. The interior of the church preserves fourteen ancient Roman columns and two lion supports that date from the earliest reconstruction of the basilica. In 2000, it was dedicated by John Paul II to the memory of the new martyrs of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This memorial is taken care of by the Community of Sant'Egidio, who also painted the icon on the main altar. * 3072 x 2304 * (3.17MB)
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