Tag: Pietro da Cortona
Rome: Il Gesù
Rome: Santa Maria in Via Lata
Rome: Chiesa Nuova
Rome: Palazzo Barberini
Rome: Santa Maria della Pace
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.…