1546 with
the adjoining monastery on the site of the ancient TEMPLE OF MINERVA FROM
CHALCIDICE
Founded by
S. Ignatius of Loyola to accommodate women badly married, or married
women in public sin without fear of God and shameless of men who wanted to
rehabilitate themselves
Renovated
with the monastery in the years 1668/71 by Giovanni
Antonio De Rossi (1616/95) and 1671/96 by Carlo
Fontana (1634/1714) who also designed the interior
“A
masterpiece of improvisation is the church for the Augustinian of St. Martha at
the Collegio Romano. It was a sixteenth-century church with a single nave that
Fontana modified by adding the side chapels and raising the vault considerably.
The interior decoration as well was probably designed by Fontana and executed
by Leonardo Retti and G.B. Gaulli” (Helmut Hager - Dizionario Biografico degli
Italiani Treccani)
1852 by Luigi Poletti (1792/1869)
The
property of the church passed to the Italian State in 1872. Since then it was
used as barracks and military store
The
MONASTERY is now the seat of the Rome Police First District
The CHURCH
was saved in the sixties from being transformed into a the gym after a strong
media campaign and now is home to conferences, conventions, exhibitions and
concerts
It is owned
by the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activities
VAULT
G.B.
Gaulli aka Baciccio
(1639/1709) with Paolo Albertoni (1670/after
about 1695) and Girolamo Troppa (1630/after 1710) who also did the frescoes in the
presbytery
Sculptures
by Leonardo Retti (active 1670/1709)
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