St. LUCY OF THE DYE

S. LUCIA DELLA TINTA

Via di Monte Brianzo 61

The first mention of the church is on an inscription of the year 1002

Restored 1580 for the Society of the Coachmen

Rebuilt in 1628 for the Borghese family

Restored again in 1911

The church took its name from the ancient neighborhood of the dyers of fabrics that included Via Condotti of which Via Monte Brianzo is the continuation

It was also called Sanctae Luciae ad quattuor portas (St. Lucy by the Fourth Door) because it was close to the four small gates (posterule) that opened on the ancient walls that lined the banks of the River Tiber from the Pons Aelius (Sant'Angelo Bridge) to Porta Flaminia (Flaminia Gate)

The church was dedicated in 1394 to St. Lucy, Roman aristocrat martyr, not to be confused with the eponymous saint from Syracuse

FAÇADE

Rebuilt in 1715 maybe by Tommaso Mattei (1652/1726) a pupil of Carlo Fontana, for the prince G.B. Borghese

CEILING

1781 ornaments by Pietro Rotati and central canvas “St. Lucy assists to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary” by the Polish Tadeusz Kuntze aka Taddeo il Polacco (1732/93) who also painted the oval boards with “Angels in flight”

1^st ALTAR ON THE RIGHT

“Wooden painted crucifix” of the beginning of the eighteenth century

2^nd ALTAR ON THE RIGHT

Canvas “St. Lucia and an angel” about 1675 by an anonymous seventeenth-century artist

PRESBYTERY

In the floor “Fragment of cosmatesque mosaic” of the twelfth century

MAIN ALTAR

Above the altar very ruined fresco detached from a house in the Via di Campo Marzio “Virgin Mary Queen of Angels with Sts. John the Baptist, Joseph, Catherine of Alexandria and donor” by an anonymous seventeenth-century artist

Following the restoration of 1983 it was possible to verify that the Madonna and Child were painted in the second half of the fifteenth century and that the other figures were added perhaps following the crowning of the image occurred in 1667

2^nd ALTAR ON THE LEFT

Canvas “St. Lucy and St. Geminianus” by an anonymous seventeenth-century artist

1^st ALTAR ON THE LEFT

Canvas “Madonna Salus Infirmorum and Child, Sts. Egidio, Yves, Gimnesius and the souls in Purgatory” about 1723/25 by Giacomo Triga (1674/1746), a pupil of Benedetto Luti