HOLY SHROUD OF THE PIEDMONTESE PEOPLE

SS. SUDARIO DEI PIEMONTESI
Via del Sudario 47

 1604/05 Carlo di Castellamonte for Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy

1660/67 and 1682/92 expanded by Carlo Rainaldi (1611/91)

Church of the people from Savoy, Piedmont and Nice in Rome gathered in a fraternity recognized in 1597 with headquarters in the now destroyed church of S. Lodovico, which was originally on the site of the church of S. Andrea della Valle
The Brotherhood then took the name of Arciconfraternita del SS. Sudario (Confraternity of the Holy Shroud)

During the Napoleonic period it was deconsecrated and turned into stable until 1814

In 1871 it was rearranged by Giacomo Monaldi (1819/1905) and it became the local church of the House of Savoy

COUNTER FAÇADE
Organ of the eighteenth century

VAULT
“Glory of the Blessed Ludovica, Amedeo, Umberto, Bonifacio and Margherita of Savoy House” by the Sienese Cesare Maccari (1840/1919)

ON THE RIGHT - ALTAR OF St. FRANCIS DE SALES
“S. Francis de Sales” about 1665 maybe by Carlo Cesi (1626/86)
St. Francis de Sales was canonized in this church in 1665

MAIN ALTAR
“Deposition of Christ in the shroud with saints and blessed of the Savoy family” 1682 by Antonio Gherardi (1638/1702)

“Painted according to a compositional scheme drawn up by the sixteenth-century Venetian painting, whose characters formed a source of reflection and conceptual training for the artist from Rieti, the work presents a celebration of the relic that gives the name to the church, and a parade of the most significant religious figures of the house of Savoy” (Stefano Petrocchi)

On the pediment sculpture group “Eternal Father” with a copy of the Holy Shroud by Pietro Mentinovese pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini
The Holy Shroud was in possession of the Savoy family since 1452. The copy shown here was donated to Alexander VII Chigi (1655/67)
Frescoes on the walls “Sermon of St. Anselm of Canterbury” and “Meeting of St. Francis de Sales and Blessed John Juvenal Ancina” 1871/73 by Cesare Maccari

ON THE LEFT - ALTAR OF BLESSED AMADEUS OF SAVOY
“Blessed Amadeus IX of Savoy” about 1680 by Giovanni Domenico Cerrini (1609/81)

SACRISTY
“Crucifixion” and “Nativity” by Lazzaro Baldi (about 1624/1703)

St. JULIAN OF THE FLEMINGS

S. GIULIANO DEI FIAMMINGHI

Via del Sudario 40

Chapel of the XI century known as St. Julian Hospitaller for the Flemings of Flanders

Restored and rededicated in 1491 after years of neglect

Renovated in the years 1680/82

Restoration and decoration of the vault 1713/20

Since 1831 it has become the Royal Belgian Church and acquired its present name, as well as the alternative name of S. GIULIANO DEI BELGI (St. Julian of the Belgian People)

Restorations in 1852 to 1860

FAÇADE

Copy of the statue of elm wood, kept in the meeting room, “St. Julian” about 1645 b the Dutchman Judocus Van Haerts

Symbols of the four cities of Flanders: Bruges and Franc de Bruges on the right, Ghent and Ypres on the left

FLOOR

There are “Twenty-six tombstones” arranged radially

VAULT

At the center “Glory of St. Julian” about 1718 by the Englishman William Kent (about 1685/1748)

In the pendentives tempera on canvas “Allegories of Ypres, Bruges, Ghent and County of Flanders” of the mid-nineteenth century

RIGHT SIDE

Marble medallion with “Portrait of the Belgian painter Jacques Sturm” 1844 by Joseph Jean Tuerlinckx (1809/73)

RIGHT ALTAR

Altarpiece “Sts. Peter and Paul” early eighteenth century by an anonymous Roman artist

MAIN ALTAR

Altarpiece “Conversion of St. Julian” about 1695 by the Dutchman Theodor Helmbrecker (1633/96)

In the lunette polychrome glass “St. Joseph with the Child and Angels” 1851 by the Belgian Jean-Baptiste Capronnier (1814/91)

On the sides nineteenth-century tombs of the Belgian Minister Henry of Luxembourg to the right and of General Albert Prisse to the left

TO THE LEFT OF THE MAIN ALTAR

“Funeral Monument of Ludovica Timbrune-Valence” 1828 by Mathias Kessels (1784/1836) with the Countess meeting the deceased daughter in the form of an angel

BURCKARDT'S HOUSE

CASA DEL BURCARDO

Via del Sudario 44

1503 for Johannes Burckardt, the papal master of ceremonies of five popes from Sixtus IV to Julius II, from 1478 to 1503

It incorporates a preexisting tower called TORRE ARGENTINA by Johannes Burckardt with its name painted on it, in honor of his hometown Strasbourg, Argentoratum in Latin

The tower was lowered and the height of the rest of the building raised one floor, making the tower itself disappear

It gave the name to the nearby Largo di Torre Argentina which does not take the name, as many mistakenly think, from the Papitto Tower on the Largo itself

It is the home since 1932 of the LIBRARY with about 40.000 volumes and the THEATRICAL MUSEUM OF BURCKARDT belonging to the SIAE (the Italian Association of authors and editors) with about 100 paintings, busts and statuettes of actors from the nineteenth and twentieth century, costumes, prints and drawings regarding theatre productions