Known since
1192 as S. Andrea Arcus Auri probably because of the proximity with the
ancient ARCUS AUREO, now destroyed
Known since
the sixteenth century as S. Andrea a Portogallo (St. Andrew in Portugal)
or S. Andrea a Busta Gallica and since 1726 as Ss. Andrea e
Bernardino (Sts. Andrew and Bernardino)
The name
Busta Gallica derives, according to tradition, from the identification of
this place with the area where, according to the account of Livy, the consul
Camillus would have buried the bodies of the Gauls after the reconquest of the
city in 390 BC: a bustum was a place where the dead were burned and
buried
Rebuilt
1706/09 by Francesco Fontana (1668/1708) (maybe
with the help of his pupil Filippo Juvarra) whose father Carlo Fontana (1634/1714) completed it after his son's
death
Paolo
Portoghesi had suggested an attribution to Giuseppe Sardi
The church
was abandoned from 1798 to 1820
In 1824 it
was renamed to its present name by the Brotherhood of S. Maria della Neve which
took its name from the homonymous chapel in S. Maria Maggiore
Restored
1827/28 and 1837
Today it is
entrusted to the Community of St. Egidio
“The
architecture, despite its simplicity, is defined by a complex rhythm that
achieves the effect of a solid connection determined by a nervous and tense
frame, punctuated by the arches of the barrel vault, by the two windows with
lunettes near the main altar and by the strong chiaroscuro relief determined by
the conspicuous overhang of the cornice and the relevant projection of the
pillars” (Simonetta Ceccarelli)
ON THE
RIGHT
“Baptism of
Christ”
MAIN ALTAR
“Trinity
with Sts. Bernardino and Andrew” with a central bust of the Virgin Mary copy
from original of G.B. Salvi aka Sassoferrato (1609/85)
ON THE LEFT
“St.
Francis”, “St. Frances of Rome” and “Two deacons saints adoring the Virgin Mary
in Glory” all painted before 1726 by anonymous
eighteenth-century artists
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