MOST HOLY NAME OF MARY

SS. NOME DI MARIA
Foro Traiano 89

Begun in 1732 by Mauro Fontana (1701/67) for the Confraternita del SS. Nome di Maria (Confraternity of the Most Holy Name of Mary) established on the occasion of the Christian victory against the Turks in 1683
It was built on the former church of S. Bernardo of the fifteenth century

In 1735 Antoine Dérizet (1697/1768) succeeded to Fontana and he totally changed the design and added the DOME, which was completed in 1738

The FLOOR was completed in 1742

It seems that during the crucial meeting for the approval of the project by the monks, the French architect had cunningly folded the sheet to hide the structure of the dome

“Dérizet imagined for this new church a building where could go together Manneristic ideas, inspired by the nearby S. Maria di Loreto, with the academic classicist style. Interested in the problems of architectural proportion and supporter of the theory of structural relations between music and architecture, Dérizet tried in his project to create a structure where there would be no contrasts between the internal space and the external structure” (Luigi Gallo)

In 1751 Mauro Fontana was reinstated. He closed the two side entrances for static problems caused by the weight of the dome and added the presbytery

EXTERNAL BANISTER
“Eleven statues of saints and prophets” 1739/41 carried out by eleven different artists such as Pietro Paolo Campi (known 1702/40) (“Ageo”) and Michelangelo Slodtz (1705/64) (“St. Matthew” and “Obadiah”)

INTERIOR
Decorated in 1743 by Agostino Masucci (1691/1758)
Interior lining in faux marble 1858 by Luigi Gabet (active 1858/78), who also restored dome and pillars, while he was working at the same time in the adjacent Palazzo Valentini

IN THE RIBS OF THE DOME
Eight medallions in stucco “Stories of the Virgin Mary” about 1750 by Carlo Tandardini (1677/1748), Francesco Queirolo (1704/62), Filippo Della Valle (1698/1768), G.B. Maini (1690/1752), Bernardino Ludovisi (about 1713/49) and Michelangelo Slodtz who also made the stuccos in the lantern

1^st CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Above the altar “St. Aloysius Gonzaga” by Antonio Nessi (active 1739/73)

2^nd CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Above the altar “St. Anne and the Virgin Mary” about 1757 by Agostino Masucci (1691/1758)

3^rd CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT
Stucco decoration by Andrea Bergondi (active in Rome in the XVIII century)
Above the altar “Death of St. Joseph” 1755 by the Roman Stefano Pozzi (1699/1768)

MAIN ALTAR
1750 designed by Mauro Fontana (1701/67)
Spectacular “Glory of Angels” by Andrea Bergondi that includes “Virgin Mary and Child” painting of the first half of the thirteenth century by an artist of the Roman school from the Sancta Santorum in the Lateran Palace

ON THE FLOOR IN FRONT OF THE CHAPEL OF THE MAIN ALTAR
“Tomb of Cardinal Ludovico Pico della Mirandola” d. 1743 indefatigable supporter of Antoine Dérizet

2^nd CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Above the altar “Virgin Mary appears to St. Bernard” 1751 by Nicolò Ricciolini (1687/1772)

1^st CHAPEL ON THE LEFT
Above the altar “Sts. Peter and Paul” by Lorenzo Masucci (?/1785), son of the painter Agostino Masucci
On the left “St. Joseph with the Child” by an artist of the Roman school of the eighteenth century

SACRISTY
1839 neoclassical façade
There is preserved a carpet removed from the tent of the Grand Vizier after the 1683 defeat of the Turks in Vienna
Bas-relief “Madonna and Child” by an unknown artist of the second half of the sixteenth century

Sts. ANDREW AND CLAUDE OF THE BURGUNDIANS

SS. ANDREA E CLAUDIO DEI BORGOGNONI
Piazza S. Claudio/angolo Via del Pozzetto

Built in 1652 in lieu of a pre-existing chapel for the colony of French Burgundians which increased greatly in the years 1632/42 after the Thirty Years War and after a famine
At that time, about 12,000 Burgundians migrated to Rome
Another wave of refugees arrived in 1678

Rebuilt 1729 by Antoine Dérizet (1697/1768)

Now the church is run by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers
It is always open to the perpetual adoration of the Sacrament

FAÇADE
In two niches, on either side of the door, on the left “St. Andrew” 1771 by Luc Breton and on the right “St. Claude” 1771 by G.A. Grandjaquet two sculptors from Burgundy

“Closely related to the works of 1729 was the arrangement of the square just outside St. Claudius, which at the time was divided by that of S. Silvestro by a line of buildings. But the carefully studied effect of proportions that the square must have had was unfortunately totally lost after the demolition, around 1940, of the line of buildings with the subsequent unification of the two squares” (Angelandreina Rorro)

PENDENTIVES
Stuccos “Evangelists” by Pierre de l'Estache (about 1688/1744)

1^st RIGHT - CHAPEL OF St. JOSEPH
In the altar “St. Joseph between two angels” by Guido Francisi
On the left “Dream of St. Joseph” and on the right “Flight into Egypt” 1949 by Cleto Luzzi (1884/1952)

RIGHT ALTAR 
Above the altar “St. Claude recommends to St. Charles Borromeo the citizens of the Franche-Comté” 1731 by Placido Costanzi (1702/59)
On the right “St. Claude” 1939 by Cleto Luzzi

MAIN ALTAR
Canopy of the end of the nineteenth century flanked by two angels where the Sacrament is normally exposed
Fresco in the upper part “Eternal God Blessing” by Antonio Bicchierai (1688/1766)

LEFT ALTAR 
“Resurrection” 1740 by Jean François de Troy (1679/1752)
On the right “St. Andrew” 1939 by Cleto Luzzi (1884/1952)

OLD SACRISTY
Two paintings with the same subject “Sts. Andrew and Claude entrust to Our Lady the citizens of Franche-Comté” one by the Belgian Louis Cousin aka Luigi Gentile (1605/67), the other by Pietro Barbieri (1684/1730), a pupil of Carlo Maratta

NEW SACRISTY
“Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament” by Eugenio Cisterna (1862/1933)