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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