Showing posts with label Centocelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centocelle. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 15, 2019

St. FELIX OF CANTALICE

S. FELICE DA CANTALICE
1935 Mario Paniconi (1904/73) and Giulio Pediconi (1906/99)
St. Felix of Cantalice (about 1515/87) was a Capuchin friar who lived for forty years in Rome on alms and prayer, wandering around with a bag on his back
He was buried in the church of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception

IN THE FAƇADE
Painting “St. Felix of Cantalice” by Rodolfo Villani (1881/1941) nicknamed “Big Foot”
After the World Cup of 1982, which ended with the victory of the legendary Italian national team, the image was jokingly modified with the addition of a temporary football and boots

APSE
Huge fresco integrated with the technique of sgraffito “Madonna gives the Child to St. Felix” 1968/69 by Silvio Alessandri known as father Ugolino da Belluno (1919)
The surface is about 480 m² (5,200 square feet) and it was inaugurated on January 1, 1970 by Pope Paul VI Montini (1963/78) on the occasion of the World Day of Peace

Thursday, August 13, 2015

CENTOCELLE DISTRICT INN

OSTERIA DI CENTOCELLE 

Via Casilina km 8/incrocio Via Palmiro Togliatti

Domed building with articulated and complex plan, maybe dating back to the fourth century AD

The dimensions are 30 x 25 m (98 x 82 feet) to a height of 9 m (30 feet)

The original function is unknown

The location at the edge of the ancient Via Labicana would suggest a burial function but the complexity of the building leads to doubt it
It may have had commercial functions or it may have been a nympheum (fountain) although there is no trace of hydraulic pipes