San Girolamo della Carità
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| Patronage : | St. Jerome |
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| Cardinal Deacon : | Miguel Ayuso Guixot MCCJ |
| Address: | Via di Monserrato, 62 00186 Roma |
San Girolamo della Carità ( Latin Sancti Hieronymi a Caritate in via Iulia ) is a church in Rome . It is also the title diakonia of the Roman Catholic Church and houses two important baroque chapels and other works of art.
location
The church is located in the VII. Roman Rione Regola about 70 meters northwest of the Palazzo Farnese .
History and building history
The church gets its name from the fact that it is the Brotherhood Church of the Arch-Brotherhood of Charity (Italian: della Carità ). This brotherhood was founded in 1524 by Pope Clement VII to care for the sick and the poor. The predecessor of today's building was Philipp Neri's first Roman residence before his move to the Church of Santa Maria in Vallicella on papal orders.
The current building was built after a fire in the previous building from 1654 to 1660; the architect was Domenico Castelli . The facade was created by Carlo Rainaldi .
Exterior
The rich facade is a classical facade in the style of the Roman high baroque . It is two-story, the lower floor is divided into three parts by a graduated program of double pilasters with Corinthian capitals on the left and right of the portal. Blind windows are set in the areas remaining between the lateral corner pilasters. The pilasters have a cranked architrave that adopts the arched motif of the portal ädikula in the middle section above the portal . The upper floor repeats in the middle part the program of the middle part of the lower floor, the pilasters now have composite capitals . The motif of the portal is repeated in the arched window on the upper floor, which is vaulted by an openwork triangular gable . Instead of the omitted side parts, the structure is flanked by volutes . Another perforated triangular gable crowns the facade, and the repeated insertion of a round arch in the gable creates the harmonious impression of the facade.
Interior
The small building is built with a single nave on a cross-shaped floor plan; a total of six side chapels open to the left and right of the nave and the high altar, two of which are significant in terms of art history. The coffered, wooden ceiling of the church was probably worked around 1587 and thus comes from the previous building.
The church also contains a tomb for M. Acuto , created by Pietro da Cortona in the left arm of the transept.
The high altar was made to designs by Carlo Rainaldi , the altarpiece by Domenichino depicting the communion of St. Jerome is now in the Vatican Pinacoteca and has been replaced by a copy.
Capella Spada
The Capella Spada is the first on the right. It is not entirely clear who built it. The older literature came from Borromini , according to sources found it may also have been created by Virgilio Spada . In contrast to other baroque side chapels, it dispenses with a balustrade to separate it from the nave, instead two angels hold a cloth. The covering of the walls with ornamented elements of different colored marble is also unusual; a reference to Neapolitan models is possible here. The pictures and reliefs attached here - some by Ercole Ferrata and Cosimo Fancelli - just hang on hooks in the wall. As usual, they are not framed by the architecture of the chapel. Together with the benches, on which two members of the Spada family are depicted, and the simply set up urns of the family members buried here, the result is the "impression of a private room that looks more like a living room than a chapel".
Capella Antamoro
The Capella Antamoro , to the left of the high altar, is the only Roman work by Filippo Juvara , who was later appointed architect of St. Peter's Basilica from 1725 . Started in 1708, it was completed in 1710 as the funerary chapel of the Antamoro family. The rectangular floor plan was filled out unusually by Juvara: he placed the corner columns with convex bases diagonally in the room and built an almost completely oval dome with diagonal and coffered ribs over an architrave rounded in the corners . The altar is also designed to be convex so that the spatial impression of an ellipse is created. The large oval window behind the figure of St. Filippo Neri, to whom the chapel is also consecrated, effectively stages his statue. The entire chapel is clad with multi-colored marble and decorated with gold leaf, and the vault is furnished with rich stucco decoration. Grundmann sees in the basic structure a reference to Michelangelo's Capella Sforza in Santa Maria Maggiore , in the use of the colored marble parallels to the work of the teacher of Juvara, Carlo Fontana , as well as in the figurative design those to Bernini .
Cardinal deacons
List of Cardinal Deacons of San Girolamo della Carità
opening hours
The church is open from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Today's access is not via the main portal, but via a side portal on Via di San Girolamo della Carità .
literature
- Marco Bussagli (Ed.): Rome - Art & Architecture . Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2258-1 .
- Stefan Grundmann (Ed.): Architectural Guide Rome. Menges, Stuttgart / London 1997, ISBN 3-930698-59-5 .
- Herbert Rosendorfer : Church leader Rome . 3rd edition Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-361-00485-3 .
- Manfred Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Art Guide, Italy. Volume V. Rome and Latium . Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-008679-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rosendorfer: Kirchenführer Rom , p. 110.
- ↑ a b c d Grundmann (ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 224.
- ↑ a b Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Kunstführer , p. 190.
- ↑ Bussagli (Ed.): Rom - Art & Architecture , p. 582.
- ↑ Schelbert: "Filippo Juvarra's S. Filippo-Neri Chapel in S. Girolamo della Carità in Rome and its client Tommaso Antamoro", Roman Historical Messages 44, 2002, pp. 425–476
- ↑ a b Grundmann (ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 256.
- ^ Rosendorfer: Kirchenführer Rom , p. 112.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 43 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 12.7" E