San Bonaventura al Palatino
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| Patronage : | Bonaventure of Barcelona |
| Consecration day : | November 20, 1689 |
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Via di San Bonaventura 00186 Roma |
San Bonaventura al Palatino , also San Bonaventura alla polveria , is a church in Rome . It was built in the 17th century, renovated and slightly modified in the 19th century. She's monastery church of the Franciscan and held a number of relics .
Location and naming
The monastery with the church consecrated to Blessed Bonaventura of Barcelona , a Spanish Franciscan , is located in the middle of the remains of the former imperial palaces on the Palatine Hill in the X. Roman Rione Campitelli on Via di Bonaventura . The church is nicknamed "alla polveria" from a powder magazine that French troops placed nearby during the Napoleonic period.
History and building history
The construction of the little church was a donation by Cardinal Barberini at the request of Blessed Bonaventure. The area on which the church stands was owned by the Barberini family and was previously used for viticulture . Construction began in 1675 and was completed in 1689, but Bonaventure did not live to see it, he had died five years earlier. The current facade dates from the beginning of the 19th century, the church was not given the current vault until 1839.
facade
The simple facade is hardly decorated. Only three niches and a semicircular window give some structure. The two lower niches next to the portal contain the last two stations of a Way of the Cross that leads to the monastery and church. In the niche above the portal there is a baroque statue of the patron saint of the church. The semicircular window above, like the entire upper facade above the statue, was not created until the church was vaulted in 1839. The glass window inside is a modern work.
Interior
The church is a single-nave building, the two side altars per nave wall are in slight wall depressions. The building is covered by a barrel vault built in 1839 , previously the church only had a flat ceiling. The coffering of the vault is only painted. The structuring pilasters of the walls and the triumphal arch to the choir follow the Tuscan order . On both sides of the high altar there are entrances to small side chapels, above which oratories are set up.
Above the high altar is a painting of the Immaculate with other saints. The painting is a work by Filippo Micheli da Camerino . It is framed by an aedicule , the columns follow the composite order . In the high altar are the relics of St. Leonardo da Porto Maurizio .
The left side altar contains the relics of St. Flavianus , a martyr . The altarpiece shows St. Francis of Assisi . In the right side altar there are relics of St. Colomba , on the altar painting is St. Anthony of Padua .
Above the front altar on the right side wall is a crucifixion scene by Giovanni Battista Benaschi from the 17th century, above the rear altar on the right the depiction of Saints Paschalis , Diego and Salvatore d'Orta , a work by Giacinto Calandrucci . On the middle wall are the relics of Blessed John the Baptist of Burgundy .
On the left side wall in front there is an altar with a representation of the Archangel Michael , also by Benaschi. The rear altar on the left contains the relics of Blessed Bonaventure. There the altarpiece shows the Annunciation , again by Benaschi. Still buried in the church is Francesco Mancino , who died in 1758; his portrait is above his grave.
literature
- Walter Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. 1st volume. Hollinek Brothers Publishing House, Vienna 1967.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome , p. 473.
- ↑ a b c d Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. P. 474.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 19.7 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 18 ″ E