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
“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
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