Wednesday, February 27, 2019

St. LAWRENCE IN MIRANDA

S. LORENZO IN MIRANDA
It was built maybe in the seventh or eighth century for the Guild of Apothecaries in the structure of the TEMPLE OF ANTONINUS AND FAUSTINA of the year 141 AD dedicated to Antoninus Pius (138/161) and to his wife Faustina
According to tradition, St. Lawrence was sentenced to death here
We do not know where the name “Miranda” comes from
First mentioned by the sources in 1192
Urban V (1362/70) ordered to strip some of the marbles to use them in the Basilica of St. John Lateran
Rebuilt in the years 1601/14 by Orazio Torriani (about 1601/about 1657)

3rd CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Altarpiece “Annunciation” by Alessandro Fortuna, one of the rare paintings by this pupil of Domenichino who died very young
On the left of “Kiss of the side with a donor” about 1573 beautiful work by Giovanni De Vecchi (about 1537/1615)

MAIN ALTAR
1643/46 architecture by Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona (1597/1669)
On the altar painting “Martyrdom of St. Lawrence” also by Pietro Berrettini aka Pietro da Cortona
On the left “Madonna and Child with Sts. Philip and James” by Raffaello Vanni (1587/1673) from Siena

1st CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Altarpiece “Madonna and Child with Saints” very damaged, about 1626 by Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641) who perhaps designed the stuccos too
Under the church big SPEZIERIA (old farmacy)

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