Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Sts.PETER AND PAUL

SS. PIETRO E PAOLO
Piazzale dei Ss. Pietro e Paolo 8 - EUR

Begun in 1938, opened in 1955 by Arnaldo Foschini (1884/1968) with the collaboration of Tullio Rossi (1903/97), Costantino Vetriani (1895/1968) and Alfredo Energici (1894/?)

Height 72 m (236 feet)

DOME
In reinforced concrete covered with slate with a diameter of 28 m (92.8 feet)
It is the fourth wider dome in Rome after the Pantheon (43.3 m - 142.06 feet), St. Peter (42.56 m - 139.6 feet) and S. Giovanni Bosco al Quadraro (31 m - 101.7 feet)

ON TOP OF THE STAIRS
Statues “St. Peter” by Domenico Ponzi (1891 /?) and “St. Paul” by Francesco Nagni (1897/1977)

“The filled and swollen forms, featuring the careful modulation of the anatomical figures reveal the choice for a sculpture of architectural mass and plastic volume, which made ​​Francesco Nagni one of the main artists of the celebrative tradition of the Fascist period, facilitating his early participation in the orbit of major public works” (Francesca Franco - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani Treccani)

HIGH-RELIEF ON THE FAÇADE
“The Handing oo the keys” and bronze portal by Giovanni Prini (1877/1958)

OTHER RELIEFS ON THE FAÇADE
Works by Alessandro Monteleone (1897/1967), Venanzo Crocetti (1913/2003) and Carlo Pini (1902 /?)

INTERIOR
Two “Ambos” in bronze by Duilio Cambellotti (1876/1960)

MAIN ALTAR
Sculpture “Christ Triumphant” by Attilio Selva (1888/1970)
“Crucifix” in bronze by Giuseppe Graziosi (1879/1942)
“Bronze doors of the tabernacle” by Ernesto Vighi (1894/1950)

DRUM OF THE DOME
Four marble reliefs with Evangelists: “St. Luke and St. Mark” by Francesco Coccia (1902/81), “St. John and St. Matthew” by Enrico Castelli (1890/?)

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