1724/29 Filippo Raguzzini (1680/1771) for Benedict XIII Orsini
(1724/30) for patients suffering from skin diseases
The
hospital was one of the best in Europe in those days and in the first half of
1900s it had an important role in the fight against syphilis
Now it is a
modern INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGY
The FAÇADE
is 160 m (525 feet) long and 9 m (29.5 feet) high
“A model of
urban design and, for those times, a rare example of rational hospital
architecture” (Giulio Carlo Argan)
St.
Gallicanus was consul under Constantine and, after moving to Ostia, he devoted
himself to the care of the sick. He suffered martyrdom under Julian the
Apostate (361/363)
TWO WARDS
One for
male and one for female, separated by the church
ROOM FOR
BOYS
1754 Costantino Fiaschetti for Benedict XIV Lambertini
(1740/58)
ANATOMY
THEATRE
1826 for
Leo XII Sermattei (1823/29). Two semicircles with a dome
Stucco
frieze “Legend of the serpent of Aesculapius and the Tiber Island and portraits
of famous doctors” by Ignazio Sarti (1791/1854)
APOTHECARY 1929
CHURCH
It was
consecrated in 1726
It has
inner side windows to allow the sick to attend Mass
Altarpiece “St.
Gallicanus recommends three sick people to the Virgin Mary” and two lunettes by
the great Roman painter Marco Benefial
(1684/1764)
“After 1723
he had another difficult period, during which the painter bent again to enter
into an agreement of “partnership”, with Filippo Evangelisti, a mediocre pupil
of Benedetto Luti, under whose name went many paintings which were completely
by Benefial instead, for example, St. Gallicanus and the Sick in the church of
St. Gallicanus in Rome, clearly inspired by Correggio and the Carraccis”
(Evelina Borea - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
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