Santa Maria Immacolata a Via Veneto

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Exterior facade of the Church of Santa Maria Immacolata a Via Veneto .
Interior of the church

Santa Maria Immacolata a Via Veneto or Nostra Signora della Concezione dei Cappuccini is the name of a church building in Rome .

The church was built at the instigation of Cardinal Antonio Barberini , brother of Pope Urban VIII , according to plans by Antonio Casoni between 1626 and 1631 and is located on Via Veneto near Piazza Barberini . It still belongs to a Capuchin monastery today . There is an ossuary in the crypt .

The ossuary made the church famous because hundreds of skeletons were not only stored but processed there until 1870. In six rooms, connected by a common corridor, skulls, pelvic bones, vertebrae and shoulder blades were arranged into wall decorations, flowers and biblical representations. You can also see a chandelier made entirely of bone, which hangs from the ceiling of the room.

You can visit the crypt in the attached Capuchin Museum for a fee.

A sign at the entrance to the crypt reads : “Quello che voi siete noi eravamo; quello che noi siamo voi sarete. " (What you are we have been; what we are you will be.)

gallery

  • The Archangel Michael by Guido Reni inside the church

  • Church crypt

  • Details of the crypt

  • Details of the crypt

  • Details of the crypt

  • Interior of the crypt

  • Gravestone of Antonio Barberini, the founder of the church

Web links

Commons : Santa Maria Immacolata a via Veneto (Rome)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 17 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 19 ″  E