Tuesday, March 5, 2019

St. MARY OF THE ROSARY ON MONTE MARIO

S. MARIA DEL ROSARIO A MONTE MARIO
About 1650 Camillo Arcucci (active since 1646/d. 1667)
Decorative architecture about 1726 almost certainly by Filippo Raguzzini (1680/1771) for Benedict XIII Orsini (1724/30)
EXTERNAL STAIRCASE built in 1838
Since 1931 the church passed to the Cloistered Dominican Sisters of Sts. Dominic and Sixtus in Magnanapoli, who moved in the CONVENT next to the church, renovated and enlarged

ON THE RIGHT
“Madonna and Child” by the school of Antonio Aquili aka Antoniozzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)
“Death of St. Joseph” 1710 by Biagio Puccini (1673/1721)

ON THE LEFT
“Sts. Dominic and Catherine of Siena” by Michelangelo Cerruti (1663/1748)

MONASTERY
Relic of the left hand of St. Catherine of Siena with the sign of the stigmata
Copy of the painting on wood of Syro-Palestinian school “Madonna of St. Luke” seventh or eighth century, brought to Rome by St. Dominic in 1219
The original is at the back of the copy, facing the nuns' choir, and it is only shown on request
In the monastery the pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811/86) stayed from 1863 to 1868 and composed here some of his works

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