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S.Anselmo_01 * Sant' Anselmo all'Aventino is a church, monastery and college on the Aventine Hill in Rome, dedicated to Saint Anselm. They were designed by Hildebrand de Hemptinne and Fidelis von Stotzingen, and built in 1900. The International College of Sant' Anselmo is located here, as is the seat of the Abbot Primate of the Federation of 'Black Monks' (which includes all monks under the Rule of St Benedict except the Cistercians and the Trappists). * 3072 x 2304 * (1.45MB)

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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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