St. JAMES IN SETTIGNANO

S. GIACOMO IN SETTIGNANO

Via della Lungara 142

Known since the eleventh century

It is also known as S. GIACOMO ALLA LUNGARA

The name Settignano comes from the nearby Porta Settimiana

BELL TOWER

Built in the thirteenth century

It's the only old bell tower with a single window in Rome

Completely renovated in 1643 by Luigi Arrigucci (1575/after 1643) for Cardinal Francesco Barberini

Restored in 1901

Near this church a miracle of S. Francesca Romana happened: she healed a poor sick woman named Angiolella

In the presbytery on the right remarkable “Funerary monument of Ippolito Merenda”, consistorial lawyer, about 1640/41 designed and created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598/1680)

MAIN ALTAR

Altarpiece “St. James” maybe by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (1610/62) from Viterbo, a pupil of Pietro da Cortona

St. ANASTASIA

S. ANASTASIA

Piazza di S. Anastasia

Built in the fourth century as the official place of worship for the imperial dignitaries of Palatine Hill

It was dedicated to St. Anastasia martyred in the year 253 but it was probably originally dedicated to the worship of the Anástasis, the resurrection

After the torture Anastasia's breasts were cut, her nails torn, her teeth broken, her hands and feet cut off. She finally died only by decapitation

It was restored in the eighth and ninth century and the end of 1400s for Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere (1471/84)

Final restructuring with a new FAÇADE in 1636 by Luigi Arrigucci (1575/after 1643) for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) after a tornado had destroyed the previous façade in 1634

Interior decorated in the years 1721/22 by the Maltese Carlo Gimach (1651/1730)

This was the first church ever where the practice of the perpetual Eucharistic adoration began in 2001, a practice now spread throughout the world

CEILING

“Martyrdom of St. Anastasia” 1722 by the Roman Michelangelo Cerruti (1663/1748)

CHAPEL IN THE RIGHT NAVE

Above the altar “St. John the Baptist” by Pier Francesco Mola (1612/66)

CHAPEL AT THE END OF THE RIGHT NAVE

“Stories of St. Charles Borromeo” and “Stories of S. Filippo Neri” by Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703)

Incredible reliquary with relics of thirty-four saints and blessed, including the Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

RIGHT TRANSEPT

Above the altar “S. Toribio” 1726 by Francesco Trevisani (1656/1746)

ALTAR

“Nativity” and other paintings by Lazzaro Baldi

“Renouncing to the throbbing vitality and dynamism of his master Pietro da Cortona, he acquired Venetian solutions inspired by Pierfrancesco Mola and revived by Gaulli, he also acquired the expressive taste for darkness of Giacinto Brandi or he yielded toward formal balance, showing sensitivity to the calibrated compositional layout of Carlo Maratta, more befitting his measured mood” (Antonella Pampalone)

Under the altar statue of “St. Anastasia” by Francesco Aprile (?/1685) completed in 1667 by Ercole Ferrata (1610/86)

LEFT TRANSEPT

“Tomb of Cardinal Angelo Mai” in 1857 by Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1799/1873)

Altar painting “Madonna of the Rosary” by Lazzaro Baldi under which a medieval fresco was found

CHAPEL AT THE END OF THE LEFT NAVE

“St. Jerome” maybe by Domenico Zampieri aka Domenichino (1581/1641)

In the lunette “Martyrdom of St. Anastasia” by an anonymous seventeenth-century artist

CHAPEL ON THE LEFT

“Sts. George and Publius” by Etienne Parrocel (1696/1774)

Attached to the church MONASTERY OF THE OLIVETANI FATHERS with the façade of the second half of 1600s on Via dei Cerchi facing the Circus Maximus

PALATINE HILL - St. SEBASTIAN

S. Sebastiano

Known in the Middle Ages as S. Maria in Pallara from the Palladium of Troy, which was in the Temple of the Sun

The Palladium was a statue which, according to ancient beliefs, was able to defend an entire city

Rebuilt 1624/30 for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) by Luigi Arrigucci (1575/after 1643) retaining the original apse of the tenth century with traces of frescoes

COUNTER FAÇADE

Watercolors nineteenth-century copies of those of the seventeenth century, which were themselves copies of the destroyed medieval frescoes

Paintings in the PRESBYTERY and in the SPANDRELS

“God the Father and angels”, “Virtues”and “St. Sebastian” 1633/36 by Bernardino Gagliardi (1609/1660)

BEHIND THE MAIN ALTAR

Traces of “Frescoes with scenes of Christ” dating back to the end of the tenth century

ALTARPIECE ON THE LEFT WALL

“Martyrdom of St. Sebastian” 1633 by Andrea Camassei (1602/49) with the episode of the whipping that actually killed St. Sebastian and is rarely represented

The arrows with which he had previously been wounded in fact had not killed him