About 870
in the area of the Temple of Jupiter Iurarius
Mentioned
in the fourteenth century in the sources with the name of Sancti Ioannis de
Insula and also Sancti Ioannis Cantofiume
It was
dedicated to St. John Calibita in the spot where, according to tradition, his
father's house would have been
Rebuilt in
1584 on the ruins of the old church
1640,
completed in 1711 by Luigi Barattoni (active in
the first quarter of the eighteenth century) and Romano
Carapecchia (1668/1738)
BELL TOWER
Cesare
Bazzani (1873/1939)
INTERIOR
Renovated
in the years 1736/42
Decorations
in the years 1740/41 by Corrado Giaquinto
(1703/66) including the frescoes “Glory of St. John of God” and “Sts.
Hyppolitus, Taurinus and Herculaneum”
“In the
pre-neoclassical Rome of these years, Giaquinto is an outsider who accentuates
the melodramatic technique of the Arcadia of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, in vogue
in the twenties and thirties, with amazing special effects of lights and
theatrical artifice, in a style all his own. Taking to the extreme the
possibilities inherent in Baroque painting, this captivating and bombastic
language proves the most appropriate to interpret the requirements of
representation of the great international courts” (Anna Lo Bianco)
1st CHAPEL
ON THE RIGHT
Above the
altar “Lady of the Lamp” venerated since the flood of 1557 when the lamp below
the image stayed on despite being submerged in water
UNDER THE
MAIN ALTAR
Relics of
St. John Calibytes and of seven other martyrs found during the seventeenth
century renovation
St. John
Calibytes was a Roman monk of the fifth century who went to Constantinople to
live as a hermit in a hut called kalýbe, where he died
CLOISTER
Lunette
with eighteenth-century paintings
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