Sunday, March 25, 2018

St. 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
“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
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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