Santa Maria in Monterone
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| Patronage : | St. Mary |
| Consecration day : | (Re-consecration) April 3, 1351 |
| Address: |
Via Monterone, 75 00186 Roma |
Santa Maria in Monterone is a church in Rome . Parts of the current church date back to the 14th century, it was renovated and rebuilt several times, fundamentally in the 17th century. Today it is the Redemptorist monastery church .
Location and name
The church is located in the 8th Roman Rione Sant'Eustachio about 150 meters northwest of Largo di Torre Argentina . It got its nickname for the Patronage of Mary in Monterone , as well as the Via Monterone that runs along here , from a family Monteroni who came from Siena and who owned land in this area in the Middle Ages. Buchowiecki rejects the establishment of the church by this family, but they maintained a pilgrim hospice for Sienese citizens.
History and building history
The church was first mentioned in a document by Pope Urban III. from the year 1186, it was then under the chapter of San Lorenzo in Damaso . It was renovated for the first time in the 13th century and mentioned twice, including in a document from Pope Innocent IV from 1246. A century later, it was renewed again and consecrated again in 1341. Renewed works date from 1542, a thorough design in the style of the time and the construction of the facade did not take place until 1682. Pope Pius VIII lifted the privileges of San Lorenzo in Damaso in 1815, transferred the parish to Sant'Eustachio and set the Redemptorists as a new owner. The floor was renewed again in the late 19th century.
facade
The facade, which is simple by Roman standards, is two-story and three-axis. The surface is structured in the upper and lower floors by pilasters of the Tuscan order , the portal is covered by a segmental arch, the lateral travées are structured by small, oval windows at the bottom. On the upper floor, the wall breaks through a large rectangular window in the middle, and smaller ones on the sides, one of which is only designed as a blind window. The gable contains a cartouche with the inscription regarding the construction of the facade, flame vases and a cross on pedestals close the facade vertically.
Interior
The church is laid out as a basilica , so it has three naves with a raised central nave. The arcade arches of the central nave are supported by columns with capitals of Ionic order . Some of the columns and capitals are antique , they may have been taken from the portico of Pompey . The central nave is spanned by a coffered barrel vault, the side aisles, with the exception of a yoke, are flat covered, with the coffered ceilings only being painted. Since the barrel has no windows, the church only receives daylight through the window on the portal side and the window in the barrel closure above the high altar of the choir .
Furnishing
Next to the choir in the front left aisle, the room is built as an actual chapel . The version is relatively new and dates from 1848, it was created by Pietro Camporese . The small dome is designed with octagonal coffers, the pendentives are frescoed , depicted are evangelists , they are works by the Neapolitan artist Donato de Vivo .
The last yoke of the right aisle is designed like a chapel, it is also domed, the construction again corresponds to the Tuscan order. On the altar there is a modern painting depicting the third of Anna herself .
Behind the high altar is an oval oil painting depicting the patroness with the baby Jesus. The picture is fitted into another rectangular painting, which is framed by an aedicule with columns of Corinthian order . In the larger picture, various saints point to the inner picture. Both are works by Gaspare Sentenari from the 17th century.
The church is still known for its grave monuments and tombs that have been preserved from different centuries. To the left of the high altar is the tomb with the sarcophagus of Cardinal Stefano Durazzo , who died in 1667. The tomb itself as well as the surrounding jewelry and the relief image of the cardinal could be the work of Filippo Parodi from Genoa . In the right aisle there is the tomb of Anna Morone, who died in 1647, and in the first yoke that of Caterina Gondi, who died in 1867, it shows a bust of the deceased. The patrician family Alberini buried their relatives in this church for centuries, the oldest burial places go back to the 14th century. The Orsini family and other noble families also had their dead buried here. A tomb from the early 15th century is preserved in the first arch of the right aisle, it shows Giovanni da Bazzano buried here, he died in 1406. A double tomb of the married couple Cosimo and Patrizia Simonetti-Cingoli is to the right of the portal on the wall, they died in 1652.
In the sacristy there is a relief that can refer to the member of the widely ramified Orsini, Lello di Campo dei Fiori , mentioned in a novella by Giovanni Boccaccio , as both the heraldic symbols of the Orsini and the Leoni family are carved on it came from his wife.
literature
- Walter Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome . Volume 2, Brothers Hollinek publishing house, Vienna 1970.
- Mariano Armellini: Le Chiese di Roma . Roma 1891, pp. 453-454 ( online ).
- Christian Hülsen : Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo . Firenze 1927, pp. 348-349 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome , p. 773.
- ↑ a b c Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome , p. 774.
- ↑ a b c d Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome , p. 775.
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 48.5 ″ N , 12 ° 28 ′ 32.2 ″ E