Tag: Pietro da Cortona
Rome: Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso
Rome: San Salvatore in Lauro and the tomb of Pope Eugenius IV
Rome: Santa Bibiana
Rome: San Giovanni dei Fiorentini

Johannes de Doper is de beschermheilige van Florence. Toen de Florentijnse gemeenschap in Rome begin zestiende eeuw besloot een grote nieuwe kerk te laten bouwen, was het dan ook vanzelfsprekend dat deze aan Johannes zou worden gewijd. De San Giovanni dei Fiorentini staat op een opvallende plaats dicht bij een…
Rome: Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso
Rome: San Salvatore in Lauro en de graftombe van Paus Eugenius IV
Rome: Santa Bibiana
Rome: Il Gesù
Rome: Il Gesù
Rome: Santa Maria in Via Lata
Rome: Chiesa Nuova
Rome: Palazzo Barberini
Rome: Santa Maria della Pace
Siena: San Francesco
Rome: Santa Maria in Via Lata
Rome: Chiesa Nuova

The name Chiesa Nuova is obviously just a nickname. The official name of this immense Counter-Reformation church is and has always been the Santa Maria in Vallicella. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and has a subsidiary dedication to Pope Saint Gregorius the Great (590-604). This latter dedication…
Rome: San Lorenzo in Damaso
Rome: Palazzo Barberini
Rome: Santa Maria della Pace

I stumbled upon this lovely little church by chance. It is located directly behind the Santa Maria dell’Anima, not far from the Piazza Navona. The most intriguing exterior feature of the church is its facade, and especially the round portico designed by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669) in the seventeenth century.…