St. PATRICK

S. PATRIZIO
Via Boncompagni 31

1908/11 Aristide Leonori (1856/1928) for the College of the Irish Augustinians who still officiate it
FAÇADE Northern-European Romanesque
National Church of Ireland

AT THE END OF THE RIGHT NAVE
Detached fresco of the end of the thirteenth century “Our Lady of the Graces” formerly S. Maria in Posterula, previous church of the Irish, destroyed in order to build Ponte Umberto I (Humbert I Bridge)

APSE
Mosaic “St. Patrick explains the mystery of the Trinity to King Laoghaire” 1936 by Rodolfo Villani (1881/1941)

ON THE LEFT - ALTAR OF THE SACRED HEART
Mosaic “Last Supper” 1942 by Silvio Galimberti (1869/1956)

COLLEGE OF THE IRISH AUGUSTINIAN
In a CHAPEL on the second floor “Madonna and Child or Virgin Mary of S. Maria in Campo” about 1484 by Antonio Aquili aka Antoniazzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508) and artists from his workshop

“The setting of the image, clearly derived from the Florentine tradition, associates this Madonna (...) to models sculpted by Verrocchio, exemplified by the Madonna and Child of the Bargello Museum. Its simple frame is an integral element of the board, and maybe it is the original one. (...) The fact that the execution can be likely dated to 1484 and its quality level lead to put it in a context of strict observance of Antoniazzo Romano's style, which does not exclude the intervention of the painter himself” (Adriana Capriotti)

VIMINAL PALACE

PALAZZO DEL VIMINALE

Piazza del Viminale

1912/21 Manfredo Manfredi (1859/1627)

Semicircular arrangement of the square 1929/31 according to the Manfredi's project

“The complex consists of several buildings connected by courtyards and varying characteristics in terms of volume and indicates the existence of a secret dialectic between the severity of the general project and the desire to qualify artistically this architecture as much as possible” (Raffaella Catini - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

Fountain in front of the palace by Publio Morbiducci (1889/1963) in imitation of the “Barcaccia” in Piazza di Spagna by Pietro Bernini

The area was leveled and the soil was brought to the area where later the Città Universitaria (University City) would be built

It is the HEADQUARTERS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR

HALL

Paintings in ten panels “Activities of the Italian Genius i.e. Navigation, Poetry, Sculpture, Wheat Harvest, Printing, Weaving, Science, Architecture, Industry, Grapes Harvest and Victorious Italy in the center” by Rodolfo Villani (1881/1941)

ROOM OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Paintings by Giulio Bargellini (1896/1936)

Paintings in the other rooms by Umberto Vico, Umberto Amati e Tito Ridolfi (1886/1956)