Originally known as CHIESA DE' FILONARDI or CHIESA DEL CROCIFISSO
It was also dedicated to the HOLY TRINITY
The Board of Barbers, to whom the church was entrusted from 1560 until 1870, had it rebuilt in 1622 and it was consecrated to the Sts. COSMAS AND DAMIAN, whose names are still engraved on the facade
Curiously, in the Teatro Argentina, only a few steps away from the church, the opera The Barber of Seville by Gioacchino Rossini was performed for the first time ever
It was almost completely rebuilt in 1722/24
After 1870 it was desecrated
In 1896 was consacrated again and entrusted to the Confraternity of Jesus of Nazareth, from which it took its present name
INTERIOR 1722/24
Example of Roman Barocchetto by an unidentified and mysterious "Maestro Carnevale"
Roman Barocchetto is a derogatory term describing the evolution of Baroque style in Rome where it ended up become too ornate for some, but nevertheless interesting for others
Restored in 1854
VAULT
Frescoes "Glory of Sts. Cosmas and Damian" 1724 by Giovanni Antonio Grecolini (1675/1725)
RIGHT ALTAR
Oval "Madonna with Child" by an anonymous eighteenth-century artist, copy of the original by Pierre Mignard
PRESBYTERY
Very ruined frescoes on the right end side "Sts. Cosmas and Damian thrown overboard and saved by the angel" and on the right "Sts. Cosmas and Damian in the flames unharmed" 1722/24 by Antonio Bicchierai (1688/1766)
LEFT ALTAR
"St. Helena with the Cross" 1594 maybe by Cristoforo Roncalli aka Pomarancio (1552/1626)
SACRISTY
"St. Catherine of Alexandria" 1589 Giuseppe Cesari aka Cavalier d'Arpino (1568/1640)
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