St. ATHANASIUS OF THE GREEKS

S. ATANASIO DEI GRECI

Via del Babuino 149

1580/81 Giacomo Della Porta (1533/1602) for Gregory XIII Boncompagni (1572/85) who established the Congregation of the Greeks for the communities that followed the Greek-Albanian rite in Southern Italy

It was consecrated only in 1583 and the decoration was completed only in 1591

The trichora plant (rectangular room with apses on three sides) follows the byzantine schemes

Greek Catholic Church officiated with the Byzantine rite in Greek

FAÇADE

Maybe completed by Martino Longhi the Elder (1534/91)

With its two towers echoes the nearby and almost contemporary church SS. Trinità dei Monti

CHAPEL ON THE RIGHT

Altarpiece “Annunciation” about 1583 by Francesco Traballesi (active second half of the sixteenth century)

On the left “Tomb of the priest Demetrius Falereo” d. 1664 with the painting “Head of Christ between two executioners” of the sixteenth century by an unknown artist of the German school, improbably attributed to Albrecht Dürer (1471/1528)

APSE ON THE RIGHT

Altarpiece “Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin Mary” began in 1585 and ended only in 1591, maybe early work by Giuseppe Cesari aka Cavalier d'Arpino (1568/1640)

In a glass case there is the mechanism of the clock tower dating back to 1710. The clock is externally facing the Greek College

MAIN ALTAR

Great “Iconostasis in wood” 1876 by Andrea Busiri Vici (1818/1911)

It replaced the original iconostasis painted by Traballesi whose fragments are now kept in the refectory of the Collegio Greco

APSE ON THE LEFT

“Crucifixion with Mary and St. John” by Giuseppe Cesari aka Cavalier d'Arpino

CHAPEL ON THE LEFT

Altarpiece “Jesus among the doctors” by Francesco Traballesi (active second half of the sixteenth century)

COLLEGIO GRECO (Greek College)

To the left of the church

1796 Carlo Puri De Marchis