OSTIENSE TRAIN STATION

STAZIONE OSTIENSE
Piazzale dei Partigiani

1938/39 Roberto Narducci for Hitler's visit to Rome in 1938
The station was finally completed in 1940

High relief on the façade of the right propylaeum “Bellerophon with the winged horse Pegasus” 1940 by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

The FLOOR includes mosaics in black and white with images linked to the history of Rome
Roberto Narducci specialized in projects for post offices throughout Italy, but especially in railway stations. He was also in charge of the reconstruction of many railway stations after the destructions of World War II

Sts.PETER AND PAUL

SS. PIETRO E PAOLO
Piazzale dei Ss. Pietro e Paolo 8 - EUR

Begun in 1938, opened in 1955 by Arnaldo Foschini (1884/1968) with the collaboration of Tullio Rossi (1903/97), Costantino Vetriani (1895/1968) and Alfredo Energici (1894/?)

Height 72 m (236 feet)

DOME
In reinforced concrete covered with slate with a diameter of 28 m (92.8 feet)
It is the fourth wider dome in Rome after the Pantheon (43.3 m - 142.06 feet), St. Peter (42.56 m - 139.6 feet) and S. Giovanni Bosco al Quadraro (31 m - 101.7 feet)

ON TOP OF THE STAIRS
Statues “St. Peter” by Domenico Ponzi (1891 /?) and “St. Paul” by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

“The filled and swollen forms, featuring the careful modulation of the anatomical figures reveal the choice for a sculpture of architectural mass and plastic volume, which made ​​Francesco Nagni one of the main artists of the celebrative tradition of the Fascist period, facilitating his early participation in the orbit of major public works” (Francesca Franco - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

HIGH-RELIEF ON THE FAÇADE
“The Handing oo the keys” and bronze portal by Giovanni Prini (1877/1958)

OTHER RELIEFS ON THE FAÇADE
Works by Alessandro Monteleone (1897/1967), Venanzo Crocetti (1913/2003) and Carlo Pini (1902 /?)

INTERIOR
Two “Ambos” in bronze by Duilio Cambellotti (1876/1960)

MAIN ALTAR
Sculpture “Christ Triumphant” by Attilio Selva (1888/1970)
“Crucifix” in bronze by Giuseppe Graziosi (1879/1942)
“Bronze doors of the tabernacle” by Ernesto Vighi (1894/1950)

DRUM OF THE DOME
Four marble reliefs with Evangelists: “St. Luke and St. Mark” by Francesco Coccia (1902/81), “St. John and St. Matthew” by Enrico Castelli (1890/?)

St. MARY MEDIATRIX

S. MARIA MEDIATRICE

Via di S. Maria Mediatrice 53 - Aurelio

1942/50 Giovanni Muzio (1893/1982) who was also the architect of the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth

It was built on the Gelsomino (Jasmine) Hill, a southwest extension of the Vatican Hill

Behind the church was also built the CURIA DEI MINORI FRANCESCANI (Headquarters of the Minor Friars) a building in the shape of the letter C facing the garden

It is one of the finest examples of sacred architecture of the postwar period characterized by a sober external monumentality and a striking internal decorative richness

“Dissociating from the late nineteenth-century eclecticism, from Art Nouveau and from the emerging rationalism, Giovanni Muzio's research comes close to the artistic currents of metaphysical painting and the so called 'Novecento' (Twentieth Century) style” (Enciclopedia Treccani)

“The church is located at the top of the composition created by Muzio, preceded by a large treed area, bordered by lower buildings with which it seems to reach out towards the city. The masses of brick-coated walls are barely marked by divisions that do not affect the grandeur. The dome with octagonal base rises with pyramidal shape; the entrance is made out of an arch framed by a double row of columns of Carrara marble” (Raffaella Catini - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

“Stations of the Cross” by Domenico Mastroianni (1876/1962)

RIGHT ALTAR

Bronze relief “St. Francis stigmatized” by Ivan Mestrovic (1883/1962)

MOSAIC IN THE DOME

“Virgin Mary Queen enthroned between saints, prophets, angels and symbols of the Evangelists” by Giorgio Quaroni (1907 /60), Adriano Alessandrini and Ugo Chyurlia

PRESBYTERY

Huge fresco “The Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order” by Gisberto Ceracchini (1889/1982)

“In Rome he attended a drawing school for blue-collar workers, but he should be regarded, in fact, as self-taught. His works appeared in exhibitions of the 'Novecento' (Twentieth Century) style, and in the most important exhibitions of Italian art. (...) From his first exhibited work (Discord, 1921) to the last ones, Ceracchini, widely criticized, did not change the substance of his style that arises on the revaluation of the taste for the so called 'primitive' (early renaissance) painters, which took place at the beginning of the twentieth century, and for those formal features (design and color) historically characteristic of that period. His language, somewhat naive, was a 'sermo rusticus' (rustic vocabulary), which does not mean at all uneducated or instinctive” (Virgilio Guzzi - Enciclopedia Treccani)

Painting “Elizabeth of Hungary” and “Blessed Giovanni Forest” by Francesco Avenali

LEFT ALTAR

Marble relief “Our Lady Mediatrix” by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

St. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

S. IGNAZIO DI ANTIOCHIA

Via Appia Nuova/angolo Via S. Ignazio di Antiochia

1955/57 Tullio Rossi (1903/97)

Dedicated to the bishop of Antioch Ignatius, martyred, according to tradition, in the year 107

“Stations of the Cross” by Alessandro Monteleone (1897/1967)

Stained glass windows “Procession of saints led by St. Ignatius” by Laura Redini Giuliani (1909/1982)

MAIN ALTAR

“Crucifix” in bronze on wooden cross by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

Since 1958, in the church is kept the relic of part of the skull of St. Ignatius of Antioch, formerly housed until 1558 in the Basilica of St. Clement and until 1958 in the Church of the Gesù

APSE

Mosaic “Virgin Mary Enthroned” by Gilda Nagni and Francesco D'Urso

St. JOSEPH ON VIA NOMENTANA

S. GIUSEPPE A VIA NOMENTANA

Via Nomentana 58

1902/05 Carlo Busiri Vici (1856/1925), son of Andrea Busiri Vici, in the area of the destroyed Patrizi Chapel

APSE

Paintings by Eugenio Cisterna (1862/1933)

“Statue of St. Joseph” by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

MINOR ALTARS

Paintings “Sacred Heart of Jesus” and “Our Lady of Suffrage” by Giuseppe Bravi

BUILDING TO THE RIGHT OF THE CHURCH

1936 as the General House of the Canonici Regolari Lateranensi (Regular Canons of the Lateran)

PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE

COLLEGIO AMERICANO DEL NORD

Via del Gianicolo 14

About 1955 by Enrico Pietro Galeazzi (1896/1986) over part of the area of the former Villa Gabrielli

In the REFECTORY there is a wall with a distemper painting by Giorgio Quaroni (1907/60)

CHAPEL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY

Also by Enrico Pietro Galeazzi

On the façade "Assumption of Mary" by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

Over the entrance sculpture "Stories of S. Cecilia" by Pericle Fazzini (1913/87)

Reliefs "Stations of the Cross" by Giovanni Prini (1877/1958)

In the church there are also works by Giacomo Persichetti, Giorgio Quaroni (1907/60), Guido Greganti (1897/1986), Pio Eroli (1903/80), Nello Ena, Elio Eroli and others

CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SACRAMENT AND OF THE HOLY CANADIAN MARTYRS

CHIESA DI NOSTRA SIGNORA DEL SS. SACRAMENTO E SS. MARTIRI CANADESI

Via Giovanni Battista De Rossi 46 - Nomentano

1950/55 Bruno Apolloni Ghetti (1905/89) for the Congregation of Holy Sacrament

The name recalls the more than 300 Jesuit missionaries who, from 1611 to 1760, went to Canada: thirty-six were killed and among these, eight were beatified and canonized later in 1930

Canadian National Church 

MAIN ALTAR

"Monstrance" (now not here anymore) by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

Ambos and "Crucifixion" by Alfredo Biancini

SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT by Eugenio De Courten (1925/2009)

Windows by Marcello Avenali (1912/81) and by the Hungarian naturalized Italian János "Giovanni" Hajnal (1913/2010)