Maybe a martyrium
(building associated with the martyrdom of a saint) of the fifth century where
St. John the Evangelist would have been plunged into boiling oil in the year 95
AD
According
to tradition, he resisted for so long that was believed to be a powerful
wizard. He was then released and exiled to Patmos where he wrote the Book of
Revelation of the Bible
Renewed
1509 by Baldassare Peruzzi (1481/1536) or
Antonio Cordini aka Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
(1483/1546) for Julius II Della Rovere (1503/13)
Restored
1658 by Francesco Borromini (1599/1667) for
Cardinal Francesco Paolucci
The
beautiful gable end with palm leaves, lilies and roses globe (the coat of arms of the patron)
and cross is a copy in cement of the original in stucco now preserved in the
nearby church of S.
Giovanni a Porta Latina
INTERIOR
Restored in
1716
Stucco and
paintings “Stories of St. John the Evangelist” about 1658/60 by Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703)
“Here
Lazzaro Baldi wanted to recover the, by then ancient, classicism of Domenichino
as he was depicting an easy, basic story. Nevertheless in the Vision of St.
John in Patmos he already implemented the immersion of the figure in an
atmospheric space, with a use of the light similar to Pietro da Cortona,
something in which he would have succeeded much better between 1660 and 1665 in
his masterpiece, the painting of the same subject in St. John Lateran, where he
obtained one of the highest results of Pietro da Cortona's school and at the
same time he anticipated the plein-air painting typical of much of the
eighteenth-century” (Evelina Borea – Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
Treccani)
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