Tuesday, April 2, 2019

St. MARY IN TRIVIO

S. MARIA IN TRIVIO
Built in the first half of the sixth century by Belisarius, the general of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian (527/565), to make amends for the deposition of Pope Silverio (536/537), after having freed Rome by the Goths in the year 537 during the Greek-Gothic war (535/553)
This piece of news is reported on a plaque of the twelfth century on the outside of the church
Rebuilt in the eleventh century and again in the years 1573/75 by Jacopo Del Duca (about 1520/1604), assistant of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who also designed the FAƇADE
Formerly known as S. Maria in Xenodochio or S. Maria in Sinodo. The current name was introduced in the fourteenth century
It is now entrusted to the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood

Spectacular paintings “Circumcision”, “Presentation in the Temple” and “Assumption”
Frescoes in the spandrels “Life of the Virgin Mary”
In the lunettes “Angels”
In the triumphal arch stucco relief “Triumph of the Cross” all masterpieces of the years 1669/70 the great painter from Rieti Antonio Gherardi (1638/1702), probably helped for the lunettes by Giacinto Calandrucci (1646/1707)
“Within a deliberately archaic compositional scheme, Gherardi gives life, through many cultural references, to a complex pictorial synthesis in which he mixes the Lombard culture, in particular echoes the art of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio filtered through the interpretation of Mattia Preti, the art of the early masters, Pier Francesco Mola and Pietro da Cortona, the study of the great Venetian painting style of the sixteenth and the Bolognese one of the seventeenth century; to this he added his interest for the work of Giuseppe Coli and Filippo Gherardi, pupils of Pietro da Cortona and responsible, in 1665, for the decoration of the ceiling of the library of S. Giorgio Maggiore in Venice” (Ivana Corsetti - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)
2nd ARCH ON THE RIGHT - ALTAR OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD AND OF THE MISSIONS
In the arch seven small paintings “Tales of Christ and of the Virgin Mary” by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi (1606/80) from Bologna

3rd ARCH ON THE RIGHT - ALTAR OF THE CRUCIFIX
“Painted wooden Crucifix” Venetian work of the sixteenth century
In the arch five small paintings “Scenes of the Passion of Christ” by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

4th ARCH ON THE RIGHT
On the altar “Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary, Sts. John and Mary Magdalene” by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi

“Virgin Mary and Child” first half of the fifteenth century by an unknown artist maybe from Umbria or Marche

SIDE DOORS OF THE PRESBYTERY
Frescoes on the right “Pope St. Liberius (352/366)” and on the left “St. Cletus (76/88)” the legendary third pope after St. Peter and St. Linus

4th ARCH ON THE LEFT
Above the altar “Martyrdom of St. Cletus” end of the sixteenth century by the Capuchin friar Paolo Piazza aka Cosimo Piazza

3rd ARCH ON THE LEFT - ALTAR OF St. GASPAR DEL BUFALO
Above the altar “St. Gaspar in glory” 1939 by Guido Francisi (1886/1945)
Under the altar urn with the relics of St. Gaspar del Bufalo
“Gilded bronze statue of St. Gaspar del Bufalo” 1954 by Aurelio Mistruzzi

2nd ARCH ON THE LEFT
Above the altar “St. Mary Magdalene receives communion from the angel” 1672 by Luigi Scaramuccia (1616/80) from Perugia

ANTI-CHAMBER OF THE SACRISTY
“S. Camillo heals a sick member of the Crescenzi family” by Antonio Gherardi

GARDEN
Tree under which S. Filippo Neri loved to retire in prayer

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