TEMPIO DI MARTE
Via degli Specchi/Piazza S.
Salvatore in Campo
135 BC
maybe Hermodoros of Salamis (active in Rome in
the II century BC) for Brutus Callaicus
Nothing is
left to be seen of this temple
It was
located at the west end of the Circus
Flaminius corresponding precisely to the block between Via degli
Specchi, the Via and the Piazza di San Salvatore in Campo to left the Palazzo
del Monte di Pietà
It was a
peripteral temple made out of Pentelic marble on a crepidoma with no podium and
therefore in purely Greek style
The
church of S. SALVATORE IN CAMPO was built
on the exact area of the temple
S. SALVATORE IN CAMPO
Piazza di S. Salvatore in Campo
Mentioned
for the first time by the sources in the first half of the tenth century and
known as S. Salvatoris de Domno Campo
The
original church was built in a place other than the one of the present church,
a little further north, in front of the church of SS. Trinità dei Pellegrini
Demolished in 1638 for the construction of the
Palazzo del Monte di Pietà
Rebuilt
where it is now, not far from the original church, in the years 1639/40 by Francesco Peparelli (active since about 1626/d. 1641)
for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) with a FAÇADE clearly inspired by that of
the Chiesa del Gesù (Church of
Jesus)
“It is
interesting, for the architectural culture of the seventeenth century in Rome,
the clear intent of Peparelli to blend a longitudinal plan with a central
scheme, emphasizing the areas of the two side altars” (Sofia Barchiesi)
It was
built on the back area of the TEMPLE OF MARS dating from the year 135 BC the
remains of which are still visible in the cellar of the church
Tradition
has it that Giuseppe Balsamo, Count of Cagliostro, got married in this church
At the
beginning of the eighties it was granted to the Neocatechumenal Centre “Servant
of Jave” and now is home to the Eritrean Orthodox Coptic community
ALTAR ON
THE RIGHT
“Virgin
Mary and Saints” by an anonymous artist of the
eighteenth-century
MAIN ALTAR
Seventeenth-century
copy of the “Transfiguration” by Raphael
