1482/83
with the adjacent and now discontinued hospital
It was
built according to the testament of the noble Genoese Meliaduce Cicala near the
port of Ripa Grande for sick or needy sailors
Rebuilt in
1737
Restored
1843/76
National Church of the Genoese in Rome
It was
rebuilt in 1864 by Francesco Cellini
TO THE
RIGHT
“St. George”
1696 by Filippo Zucchetti (active in the years
1694/1712) from Rieti
“Two
columns of porphyry” maybe brought here from the Basilica of St. Paul Outside
the Walls after the fire of 1823
FURTHER ON
TO THE RIGHT
“Funeral
Monument of Meliaduce Cicala” d. 1481 by the school of
Andrea Bregno (1418/1503)
Originally
it was located at the bottom of the left wall and when it was reassembled here
the statues of St. John the Baptist and St. Catherine of Alexandria were
probably reversed. They are now turning towards the exterior of the monument
instead of toward the Virgin Mary
IN THE 5th
COLUMN ON THE RIGHT
“Tombstone”
reminiscent of the first palm tree imported to Rome
and planted here in 1588 by a man from Savona
APSE
Painting “St.
Zachary, St. John the Evangelist, St. Elizabeth with Faith and Charity” 1899 by
Mario Spinetti
MAIN ALTAR
1876 Luca Carimini (1830/90) with “Two columns of porphyry”
maybe also from the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls
On the
altar “Baptism of Christ” about 1625 by the French artist Nicolas Régnier (1591/1667)
To the left
“Tabernacle of the holy oils” end of the fifteenth century by an anonymous Florentine artist
LEFT ALTAR
“Apparition
of the Virgin of Savona” by Giovanni Odazzi
(1663/1731)
CHAPEL OF
St. CATHERINE FIESCHI ADORNO
1728/40 by
the Marquis G.B. Pittaluga who financed it and
designed it
On the
altar “Transit of St. Catherine Fieschi Adorno”
In the
vault “Glory of St. Catherine Fieschi Adorno”
Two side
panels in gray monochrome with “Stories from the Life of St. Catherine Fieschi
Adorno” and four oval green monochrome with “Cardinal Virtues” all works by the
Roman Odoardo Vicinelli (1683/1755)
CLOISTER
End of the
fifteenth century maybe by Baccio Pontelli
(about 1450/92)
It is one
of Rome's most beautiful cloisters. Here are kept some architectural fragments
of the original church
ORATORY
Frescoes “Stories
of the Virgin and St. John the Baptist” beginning of the seventeenth century
discovered after the restoration of 1975
“The
frescoes on the walls of the oratory are a peculiar problem of attribution: it
is a work, probably, of more than one artist, one more rough and popular,
another one able to express some noble suggestions. They are dated to the
beginning of the seventeenth century, but they refer (especially the Stories of
the Virgin) both in the decorative plan and in the manneristic cut of some
scenes, to themes of the previous century interpreted in a pleasant and lively
way. The cycle in the lunettes, with stories of John the Baptist, is also the
work of a painter active at provincial level, but who does not ignore certain
results of contemporary figurative culture which, at least in the scenes and
the Preaching and of the Beheading inspired him to obtain a dignified artistic
style” (Website of the Confraternita di S. Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi -
www.confraternita- sgbg.it)
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