Santa Maria di Loreto (Rome)
The church of Santa Maria di Loreto is located in the middle of the Roman old town next to the Trajan column . She is part of a twin church couple in Rome; its neighboring counterpart is Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano .
The church was built between 1522 and 1573 for the bakers' guild . The authorship of the designs is attributed to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger . The Mannerist style dome was built between 1565 and 1573 according to the plans of the architect Giacomo Del Duca (1520-1604). Its basic structure was a model for the neighboring church, but it was a building that was clearly different from it.
As a sculptor of the sculpture of the Madonna above the portal is Andrea Sansovino suspected.
Inside the church is the statue of St. Susanna, created by François Duquesnoy between 1630 and 1633, and the statue of St. Cecilia by Giuliano Finelli (1601-1653), created in 1629 or 1630.
The main altar created in 1628 Gaspare de Vecchi , Luca Carimini (1830-1890) built it around the year 1867th
Also worth seeing is a mosaic in one of the chapels , which Paolo Rossetti created in 1594. Another chapel was designed by Niccolò Circignani .
literature
in alphabetical order by authors / editors
- Heinz-Joachim Fischer : Rome. Two and a half millennia of history, art and culture of the Eternal City. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-7701-5607-2 , p. 201.
- Anton Henze: Art Guide Rome. Philipp Reclam GmbH, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-15-010402-5 , p. 215.
- Christoph Jobst: The plans Antonios da Sangallo the Younger for the Church of S. Maria di Loreto in Rome = Roman studies of the Bibliotheca Hertziana 6. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft , Worms 1990. ISBN 978-3-88462-086-1
Web links
- romecity.it: Santa Maria di Loreto (Italian)
- katolsk.no: Santa Maria di Loreto ( Memento from March 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 45.4 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 1.4 ″ E