Santa Maria Maddalena (Rome)

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Basic data
Patronage : Mary Magdalene
Consecration day :
Address: Piazza della Maddalena
00186 Roma
Facade by Giuseppe Sardi

Santa Maria Maddalena , commonly called La Maddalena in Rome , is a late 17th century church in Rome . It is the monastery church of the Camillians and the national church of the inhabitants of Abruzzo . It is considered one of the most beautiful Rococo churches in Rome.

location

The church is in the III. Roman Rione (municipality) Colonna on the Piazza della Maddalena named after her about 120 meters north of the Pantheon . The facade faces west and Via delle Colonelle leads south .

Building history

A previous building from the 15th century can be found on the site of today's church. Pope Sixtus V transferred this building to the founder of the Kamillians, Kamillus von Lellis, in 1585 . The new building began in 1673 under the direction and according to plans of Carlo Fontana . He first built the northern cross arm. From 1690 Giovanni Antonio de'Rossi and his student Pozzoni were in charge of the construction . They built the choir, parts of the nave and the crossing and changed Fontana's plans. The next architect named from 1696 to 1698 was Carlo Giulio Quadri ; he completed the building and the shell of the facade . The allocation of the facade is controversial. According to the current status, it is (still) attributed to Giuseppe Sardi , but this meets with resistance. Other possible builders named Quadri and Johann Conrad Woerle , the builders of the church organ prospectus . The facade was completed in 1735.

View into the nave towards the choir

facade

The facade, which is regarded as a “prime example of playful late style”, is initially concave. It is divided into two levels in the horizontal and three-axis in the vertical axis. The portal is framed by two full columns, over which an openwork triangular gable was built. Behind the full columns and on each corner of the façade, two-tier pilasters are set, both on the lower and upper floors, with the capitals being designed in a Baroque variant of composite capitals . Ornate niches with statues are inserted into the four traves . The portal is vaulted by an ornate shield, this is decorated with two putti on top. The concave curve of the facade is opposed to the middle window on the upper floor with a convex curve of the stepped segment gable. The middle vertical element is seen as a "large niche" and is intended to be reminiscent of Borromini 's work. The volutes of the upper arch of the niche run out to the side and are crowned by tongues of flames. The facade is richly decorated, but does not look overloaded.

Interior

The architecture of the interior is a high baroque modification of the church Il Gesù . In terms of its basic structure, it is a hall church with a dome over the crossing and a choir. The arms of the transept are very short and the church has a rectangular floor plan. The nave is designed as an independent structure and follows an elongated octagon as a basic shape, with flat chapels on the sides. The furnishings were completed by 1740. The magnificent interior contains frescoes and a. by Michelangelo Cerrutti . The highlight is the organ front built by Johann Konrad Werle in 1735 on the west side above the portal. A statue of the patroness from the 15th century, i.e. from the previous building, is in the chapel to the right of the altar. The interior decoration as a whole is considered to be a major work of the Roman Rococo (so-called barochetta ). The sacristy is also considered to be one of the most beautiful Roman of its kind.

opening hours

The church is open from 7:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the afternoon / evening.

literature

Web links

Commons : Santa Maria Maddalena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Rosendorfer: Kirchenführer Rom , p. 162.
  2. ↑ a b c Fischer Pace: Kunstdenkmäler in Rom , Vol. 1, p. 436.
  3. ↑ a b Grundmann (Ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 254.
  4. ↑ a b Bussagli (Ed.): Rom - Art & Architecture , p. 576.
  5. ↑ See Bussagli (ed.): Rom - Kunst & Architektur , p. 575.
  6. ↑ Grundmann (Ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 270.
  7. ↑ a b Grundmann (Ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 269.
  8. ↑ See ground plan in Grundmann (ed.): Architekturführer Rom , p. 254.
  9. ↑ Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Kunstführer , p. 220.
  10. ↑ Wundram (Ed.): Reclams Kunstführer , p. 221.
  11. ^ Rosendorfer: Kirchenführer Rom , p. 163.

Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 0.5 ″  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 36.8 ″  E