San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
San Giovanni dei Fiorentini | ||
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Basilica di San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini | ||
Style Baroque | | |
Groundbreaking | 1523 | |
Completed | 1734 | |
Clergy | ||
Cardinal protector | Giuseppe Petrocchi |
The Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini ("Saint John of the Florentines") is a
.Dedicated to
It was lavishly decorated with art over the 16th and 17th centuries, with most commissions going to Florentine artists.
History
Julius II's successor, the Florentine Pope Leo X de' Medici (1513-1521), initiated the architectural competition for a new church in 1518 on the site of the old church of San Pantaleo. Designs were put forward by a number of architects, among them Baldassare Peruzzi, Jacopo Sansovino, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and the painter and architect Raphael. The dominant initial ideas were for a centralised church arrangement.[1]
Sansovino won the competition but the building construction was subsequently executed by Sangallo and Giacomo della Porta.[2]
In 1559, Michelangelo was asked by Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany, to prepare designs for the church and he presented a centralised church arrangement but this was not adopted.[3]
The main construction of the church was carried out in 1583-1602 under the architect Giacomo della Porta based on the Latin cross arrangement. Carlo Maderno took over from 1602 to 1620, and directed construction of the dome and the main body of the church. However, the façade, based on a design by Alessandro Galilei, was not finished until 1734.[4]
In 1623-24 Giovanni Lanfranco produced paintings for the Sacchetti chapel.[5]
In 1634, the Baroque painter and architect
List of Ordinaries
- Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre (appointed 28 March 1960 - died 2 April 1973)
- Juan Carlos Aramburu (appointed 24 May 1976 - died 18 November 2004)
- Carlo Caffarra (appointed 24 March 2006 - died 6 September 2017)
- Giuseppe Petrocchi (appointed 28 June 2018)
Burials
Francesco Borromini is buried under the dome.[9]
Carlo Murena, architect[10]
References
- ^ Heydenreich, L.; Lotz, W. (1974). "Architecture in Italy 1400-1600". Pelican History of Art. p. 195-196.
- ^ "Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini". Lonely Planet. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ^ Heydenreich & Lotz, 1974, p. 257
- ^ Guide Rionali di Roma , Rione V, Ponte, Parte IV, 1975, p.16 (in Italian)
- Matthiesen Gallery. Archived from the originalon May 15, 2006. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Blunt, Anthony. Guide to Baroque Rome, Granada, 1982, p.51; Merz, Jorg Martin. Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture, Yale, 2008, pp 87-91
- ^ Merz, J.M. 2008, p 90-91
- ^ David M. Cheney (4 August 2018). "San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini (Cardinal Titular Church)". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
- ^ "San Giovanni dei Fiorentini". Rome Sights. Fodor's. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Treccani.it - Murena, Carlo".
Further reading
- Emilio Rufini, S. Giovanni de' Fiorentini (Rome: Marietti, 1957).
- Paolo Portoghesi, Roma Barocca (Rome: Laterza, 1966).
- Luigi Lotti, S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini (Rome: Alma Roma, 1971).
External links
- Lucentini, M. (31 December 2012). The Rome Guide: Step by Step through History's Greatest City. ISBN 9781623710088.
Media related to Church of San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by San Giovanni a Porta Latina |
Landmarks of Rome San Giovanni dei Fiorentini |
Succeeded by Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio |