1891/98 Raffaele Ingami (1838/1908) for the priestly jubilee
of Pope Leo XIII Pecci (1878/1903)
Dedicated
to the father of the Virgin Mary who was called Joachim just like Leo XIII
“The
overabundance and at the same time the extreme refinement of the decoration,
the innovative structural choices, although strictly concealed, and the
particularity of the friezes in cast iron for the facing of the decorations,
more frequently used in contemporary architecture north of the Alps, were
bitterly criticized by contemporaries as manifestations of the most extreme and
frenetic eclecticism (Angeli)” (Raffaella Catini - Dizionario Biografico degli
Italiani Treccani)
“It should
be noted the attempt to use (and not always in a bad way) those teachings of
the baroque art that had been abandoned only a few years before. The taste for
the double domes, for the richness and variety of ornaments, anti-academic for
the most part, won't perhaps grant this church a place of respect in the
treaties of art history, but will justify a little attention from both the
Romanists who want to know every hidden corner of their city, and those who
want to delve into the world a bit mysterious of art during the transition
between the last century and the current one, that is to say, one of the most
ambiguous and difficult periods” (Luciano Zeppegno)
The church
is oriented towards south - southeast and is designed to let in the sunlight
from the rose window of the façade to shine on the Eucharistic throne on the altar
exactly every 22 December, the day of the winter solstice
Among the
artists who worked in the church:
Eugenio Cisterna (1862/1933), Silvio Galimberti (1869/1956), Giovanni
Gagliardi (1838/1924) a nephew of Pietro Gagliardi, Attilio Palombi (c. 1860/1913), Cesare Cappabianca (active at the beginning of XX
century)
Mosaic “Adoration of Reparation of the
Catholic world with allegorical figures representing the five continents”
by Virginio Monti (1852/1942)
Skeleton in
iron and aluminum cover
In the
spandrels of the arches carved medallions with “Apostles”
by the Sicilian Michele Tripisciano (1860/1913)
who sculpted the Monument to Gioacchino Belli in
Piazza Mastai and worked for S.
Andrea della Valle with Virginio Monti
FOURTEEN CHAPELS
Representatives
of fourteen Catholic nations who donated funds for the construction of the
church:
Brazil,
Portugal, Bavaria, Poland,
Canada, England, USA,
Spain, France, Italy,
Belgium, Holland, Ireland
and Argentina
TO THE
RIGHT OF THE APSE
The
largest chapel dedicated to Spain in 1908 by Carlo
Busiri Vici (1856/1925)
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