Santi Andrea e Bartolomeo al Laterano

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Basic data
Patronage : St. Andrew
St. Bartholomew
Consecration day : ? 1642
Address: Via Santo Stefano Rotondo
Via San Giovanni in Laterano

00184 Rome

The facade

Santi Andrea e Bartolomeo al Laterano , in Rome also Sant'Andrea in Laterano , is a small church in Rome . The current building was built over one or more previous buildings in the 17th century. The church contains a very old image of Mary.

location

The church is located in the 1st Roman Rione Monti about 250 meters northwest of San Giovanni in Laterano . It got its nickname from its location near the Lateran .

History and building history

The Liber pontificalis in the time of Pope Hadrian I mentions a monastery SS. Andreae et Bartolomei, quod appellatur Honorii papae . According to this, there would have been a monastery at this point that Pope Honorius I founded and established in his parents' house in the 7th century. Some of the literature takes the attribution for granted, Buchowiecki regards the attribution as questionable. So this building corresponds to the attribution, it was restored under Hadrian I, it is also in a document from the time of Leo III. mentioned. What is certain is that a church has been built on this site since at least the 13th century, as the church of the Ospedale dell'Angelo Michele located here . It is also unclear whether the floor was actually created in Kosmatenarbeit on behalf of the two guardians of the brotherhood Arciconfraternita del Salvatore in the 15th century. Restorations are still known in the 17th century, the current building was built in the Baroque era and was completed in 1642. The construction of the facade dragged on until the 18th century, it was not completely finished until 1730. Opposite the building was another, no longer existing church of Santa Maria Imperatice , from which furnishings were brought to Santi Andrea e Bartolomeo several times in the 19th century.

facade

The facade is three-axis and single-storey. The surface is structured by double-tiered pilasters according to the Ionic order , the capitals are also decorated with festoons . The portal is covered by a triangular gable , in the gable there is a representation of the head of Christ in the midst of two flambeaus , this work dates from the 15th century. The architrave is cranked to match the position of the pilasters, and a simple triangular gable closes the facade at the top.

Interior and outfit

Due to the surrounding buildings, the floor plan of the church is very distorted, its base almost corresponds to a trapezoid , with the long side being formed by the facade. The side walls are structured by pilasters according to composite order, only in the area of ​​the apse do they follow the Tuscan order . The church has a flat roof, the coffering of the ceiling is painted.

The altarpiece of the right side altar on the long wall depicts a Holy Family and dates from the 19th century. More important is an image of Mary above it, possibly from the 6th century and one of the objects that were brought here from Santa Maria Imperatrice at the beginning of the 19th century.

The side altar on the left also contains an image of the Virgin Mary on the altar, of the type Salus infirmorum .

On both sides of the apse there are frescoes from the 17th century, on the left of the apse one of the church's patrons, St. Andrew, is depicted, on the right, St. Erasmus .

The altar contains a partially gilded custodia , a work from the early Renaissance . Above all, the type of flanking angels who worship the Custodia, in the manner of Isaia da Pisa, suggest an attribution to the 15th century.

literature

  • Walter Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. 1. Volume, Brothers Hollinek publishing house, Vienna 1967.
  • Mariano Armellini: Le Chiese di Roma. Roma 1891.
  • Christian Hülsen : Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo. Firenze 1927.

Web links

Commons : Santi Andrea e Bartolomeo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Armellini: Le Chiese di Roma. P. 115.
  2. ↑ Pods: Le Chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo. P. 195.
  3. ↑ a b Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. P. 366.
  4. ↑ Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. P. 367, at least has doubts.
  5. ↑ a b c d Buchowiecki: Handbook of the Churches of Rome. P. 367.

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 13.5 "  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 10.2"  E