Monday, February 18, 2019

St. JOSEPH AT THE LUNGARA

S. GIUSEPPE ALLA LUNGARA
1730/34 Ludovico Rusconi Sassi (1678/1736)
1760/64 adjacent CONVENTO DEI PADRI PII OPERAI (Convent of the Pious Workeing Fathers) by Giovanni Francesco Fiori (1709/84)
The church was restored in the years 1858/61 by Antonio Cipolla (1822/74)
The dome that had collapsed was rebuilt in 1872

RIGHT ALTAR
“Deposition from the Cross” by Nicolò Ricciolini (1687/1772)

On the altar “Dream of St. Joseph” about 1764/74 and, on the sides, “Adoration of the Magi” and “Massacre of the Innocents” 1765/67 by the Sicilian Mariano Rossi (1731/1807)

LEFT ALTAR
“Virgin Mary, St. Joachim and St. Anne” 1735 by Girolamo Pesci (1679/1759)

DECORATION OF THE CHOIR
Thirteen panels with “Jesus in Gethsemane” and “Twelve Apostles” 1764 by Mariano Rossi

NICHES IN THE FOUR CORNERS
Round Canvas “Birth of Jesus”, “Marriage of the Virgin”, “Jesus in the workshop of St. Joseph” and “Death of St. Joseph” about 1764 by Mariano Rossi

SACRISTY
Vault “Triumph of the Church” 1768 by Mariano Rossi

CHAPEL ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE CONVENT
Vault “Charity” 1764
Main Altar “The Holy Family in the stable at Bethlehem” all painted in 1764 by Mariano Rossi although the latter work was retouched by other painters
“The majority of scholars agree that Mariano Rossi in Rome absorbed in part the baroque academicism of Carlo Maratta and in part the neoclassical tendency of his master Marco Benefial, thus tempering the eccentricity and the impetus of Francesco Solimena and demonstrating an uncommon strength of absorption and assimilation. It is precisely this rare ability to fuse elements of the Neapolitan school and the Roman school, the characteristic of the art of Mariano Rossi, for which he has been well defined as a typical representative of the late Neapolitan-Roman Baroque period” (Antonella Tedesco - www.abitarearoma.net/s-giuseppe-alla-lungara-e-le-opere-di-mariano-rossi)

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