Santa Caterina dei Funari
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| Patronage : | St. Catherine |
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| Address: | Via dei Funari 00184 Roma |
Santa Caterina dei Funari ( Latin : Sanctae Catharinae Funariorum ) is a church in Rome . It was built in its current form in the 16th century and is best known for its facade and its frescoes and paintings.
location
The church is in the XI. Roman Rione Sant'Angelo about 300 meters southwest of Piazza Venezia . In earlier centuries this was the district of the rope makers , Italian funari , hence its nickname.
Building history
The church stands on the site that was built over in ancient times by the Theater des Balbus (Crypta Balbi). In the middle of this portico, the church of Santa Maria Domine Rose was built in the Middle Ages, which in a document by Pope Celestine III. First mentioned in 1192. In 1536 Pope Paul III transferred the church of St. Ignatius of Loyola , who had established an accommodation for needy girls here. The current church was built between 1560 and 1564 a little south of it. Shortly afterwards the old church was demolished. The sponsor of Santa Caterina dei Funari was Cardinal Federico Cesi , he led the asylum for the poor with Ignatius and others. The lead architect was its builder Guidetto Guidetti , a student of both Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Michelangelo .
Facade and tower
The facade, which is considered “one of the best of its kind”, was built from travertine . Guidetti's model for the design was certainly the facade of Santo Spirito in Sassia of his teacher da Sangallo. The inscription states the year 1564 as the time of completion.
The facade is two-story and five-axis. It is staggered basilically and therefore does not reflect the spatial conditions inside. The surface is initially structured by pilasters with capitals, a slight modification of the Corinthian order . The areas in between are each designed with niches, framed fields and, in the upper parts, with festoons . The cornice between the floors is slightly cranked, which emphasizes the outer corner pilasters and the central three axes. The access in the central axis is designed as an aedicule portal , two columns flank it accordingly. The upper floor essentially repeats the program of the lower floor and contains a round window in the central axis, above which the cardinal's coat of arms between decorative ribbons. Vertically tapering volutes on the sides of the upper floor mediate the basement. A simple triangular gable crowns the facade. Overall, the static facade conception of the time can still be seen on the facade.
The facade itself became one of the models for the famous facade design of Il Gesù , executed by Giacomo della Porta .
The campanile is considered "idiosyncratic" because of its tapering, open crown, possibly it was previously a tower that did not actually belong to the church.
Interior and outfit
The church is a single-nave hall building with three semicircular chapels on each side. Here, too, Guidetti oriented himself on the execution of Santo Spirito in Sassia. Between the chapels, pilasters with the same type of capital as in the facade divide the walls. The vault above the strong cornice is rather unusual for Roman churches, designed as a stitch cap vault with round arched windows, while the rectangular, recessed choir is covered by a barrel vault.
The interior of the chapels with frescoes and paintings is of good quality. The first chapel on the right (seen from the entrance towards the choir) contains a Coronation of Mary by Annibale Carracci . The second chapel on the right contains a story of Jesus , created by Girolamo Muziano . The foremost chapel on the right contains an unfinished work by Scipione Pulzone , an Assumption of the Virgin .
The Cappella Ruitz was furnished with a Pietà by Alessandro Moretto and Girolamo Romanino .
The high altar contains the martyrdom of St. Catherine by Livio Agresti . The paintings on the side walls of the choir tell the story of the saints and were created by Federico Zuccari . The putti and angels of the choir were created under Zuccari's supervision and are the work of Raffaelo Motta , known as Raffaelino da Reggio .
The church still contains an altarpiece of St. Margaret , it was made by Annibale Carracci and was created around 1599.
opening hours
The church is not open to the public. It is only open on the patron's feast day on November 25th or on the evening before the festival.
literature
- Marco Bussagli (Ed.): Rome - Art & Architecture . Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2258-1 .
- Ursula Verena Fischer Pace: Art Monuments in Rome . 2 volumes. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1988.
- Stefan Grundmann (Ed.): Architectural Guide Rome. An architectural history in 400 individual representations. Menges, Stuttgart et al. 1997, ISBN 3-930698-59-5 .
- Daniele Manacorda: Crypta Balbi: Archeologia e storia di un paesaggio urbano . Mondadori Electa, Milan 2001, ISBN 88-435-7931-2
- Anton Henze : Rome and Latium. Art monuments and museums (= Reclams Art Guide Italy. Vol. 5 = Reclams Universal Library . 8678). 4th, revised edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-008679-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Grundmann (ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 156.
- ↑ Manacorda: Crypta Balbi , p. 55.
- ↑ Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Kunstführer , p. 150.
- ↑ a b c Fischer Pace: Kunstdenkmäler in Rom , p. 421.
- ↑ Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Kunstführer , p. 151.
- ↑ Bussagli (Ed.): Rom - Art & Architecture , p. 480.
- ↑ Bussagli (Ed.): Rom - Art & Architecture , p. 483.
- ↑ Bussagli (Ed.): Rom - Art & Architecture , p. 489.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 38.2 " N , 12 ° 28 ′ 42.8" E