1608/12
begun by Nicolò Sebregondi (1580-90/about 1652)
for the Confraternita di S. Maria del Pianto (Brotherhood of St. Mary
Wailing)
It was
built on the site of the earlier church of S. Salvatore in Cacaberis,
from the word caccabarii, i.e. calderari, boilers manufacturers, also
known as caccabi
1642/44
continued by G.B. Mola (1585/1665) with the
apse, the sacristy and the bell tower
G.B. Mola
was the author of the first guide of Rome not exclusively for pilgrims in the
two editions of 1660 and 1663. He was the younger brother of the architect
Giacomo Mola and father of the painter Pier Francesco Mola
1690 side
altars and interior decoration by Filippo Tittoni
1817/18
restoration by Peter Holl (1780/1855-56)
DOME
1735 Mario Bernardi
The façade
and the main nave of the church were never built
The name
comes from the miraculous image of Mary which, in front of a heinous crime,
shed tears in 1546
“Two young
men are playing in the street, even if an order of Monsignor Governor forbids
it. The game ends in dispute and a fight begins. One of the youths wins over
the other, pulls out a knife in anger, and he is about to kill him. This one
asks for mercy in the name of the Virgin Mary depicted in a fresco with the
Child in her arms on a wall of a building on that road. The winner, at the
invocation of mercy done in the name of Our Lady, throws the knife on the ground
and helps the rival to get up, but this one picks up the dagger and 'as a prize
to have given him life, he wickedly killed him'. Faced with this fact 'The Holy
Imagine cries abundant tears from the eyes' and a Spanish priest, who was at
the scene, collects the tears in a handkerchief” (Francesco Arbitrio -
www.ilfonendoscopio.it)
PORTAL
Rebuilt
1875 by Virginio Vespignani (1808/82) in a style
that imitates the fifteenth century
INTERIOR
Interior
decoration 1817 by Camillo Marini
AT THE
ENTRANCE
“Fragment
of gothic ciborium” from the destroyed church of S. Salvatore in Cacaberis
AT THE
BEGINNING OF THE NAVE
“Processional
Banner: Virgin in Glory (recto) and Miracle of the Weeping Madonna
(verso)” by Francesco Simoncelli, pupil of Lazzaro Baldi
“Important
aspect of the career of Lazzaro Baldi and unique case in the seventeenth
century, it was his work as a contractor in the manufacture of panels for the
canonization of saints, reproduced almost in series and entrusted to his large
workshop which translated, simplifying it and cleverly reducing it, his plain
and compelling language suitable to grip the audience of the faithful”
(Antonella Pampalone)
RIGHT
TRANSEPT - CHAPEL OF St. FRANCES OF ROME
Above the
altar “Madonna and Sts. Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua and Frances of Rome”
about 1702 by Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703)
On the left
“Funerary Monument of Pompeo Palmieri” 1646/50 by G.B.
Mola
MAIN ALTAR
Designed by
G.B. Mola
Venerated
fresco of the “St. Mary Wailing” of the fifteenth century, protagonist of the
miracle in 1546
On the
walls of the choir two paintings with frames made in 1746 by Gabriele Valvassori (1683/1761):
On the
right “Jesus appearing to St. Martin” 1605 by Agostino
Ciampelli (1565/1630)
On the left
“Jesus Among the Doctors” 1605 by an anonymous artist
follower of Caravaggio perhaps close to Carlo Saraceni
Above the
pediment two statues of “Angels” by Domenico Prestinari
(active in Rome 1611/47)
LEFT
TRANSEPT - CHAPEL OF THE CROSS
“Painted
Crucifix in papier-mâché” of the sixteenth century from the destroyed church of
S. Salvatore in Cacaberis
In the
frontal “Urn” with relics of St. Costantius martyr
On the
left “Funerary Monument of Luigi Zannini” 1642 by Giovanni
Pagni with portrait by Benigno Angiolini.
Luigi Zannini was the guardian of the Brotherhood of St. Mary Wailing
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