1730/34 Ludovico
Rusconi Sassi (1678/1736)
1760/64
adjacent CONVENTO
DEI PADRI PII OPERAI (Convent of the Pious Workeing
Fathers) by Giovanni Francesco Fiori (1709/84)
The church
was restored in the years 1858/61 by Antonio Cipolla
(1822/74)
The dome
that had collapsed was rebuilt in 1872
RIGHT ALTAR
“Deposition
from the Cross” by Nicolò Ricciolini (1687/1772)
On the
altar “Dream of St. Joseph” about 1764/74 and, on the sides, “Adoration
of the Magi” and “Massacre of the Innocents” 1765/67 by the
Sicilian Mariano Rossi (1731/1807)
LEFT ALTAR
“Virgin
Mary, St. Joachim and St. Anne” 1735 by Girolamo Pesci
(1679/1759)
DECORATION
OF THE CHOIR
Thirteen
panels with “Jesus in Gethsemane” and “Twelve Apostles” 1764 by Mariano Rossi
NICHES IN
THE FOUR CORNERS
Round
Canvas “Birth of Jesus”, “Marriage of the Virgin”, “Jesus in the workshop of
St. Joseph” and “Death of St. Joseph” about 1764 by Mariano
Rossi
SACRISTY
Vault “Triumph
of the Church” 1768 by Mariano Rossi
CHAPEL ON
THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE CONVENT
Vault “Charity”
1764
Main Altar “The
Holy Family in the stable at Bethlehem” all painted in 1764 by Mariano Rossi although the latter work was retouched
by other painters
“The
majority of scholars agree that Mariano Rossi in Rome absorbed in part the
baroque academicism of Carlo Maratta and in part the neoclassical tendency of
his master Marco Benefial, thus tempering the eccentricity and the impetus of
Francesco Solimena and demonstrating an uncommon strength of absorption and
assimilation. It is precisely this rare ability to fuse elements of the
Neapolitan school and the Roman school, the characteristic of the art of
Mariano Rossi, for which he has been well defined as a typical representative
of the late Neapolitan-Roman Baroque period” (Antonella
Tedesco - www.abitarearoma.net/s-giuseppe-alla-lungara-e-le-opere-di-mariano-rossi)
