San Girolamo della Carità
San Girolamo della Carità | ||
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Church of Saint Jerome of the Archconfraternity of Charity | ||
Chiesa di San Girolamo della Carità | ||
Style Baroque | | |
Completed | 1660 | |
Administration | ||
Diocese | Rome |
San Girolamo della Carità is a church in Rome, Italy, located near the Palazzo Farnese and Campo de' Fiori.
History
According to tradition, this is the site of the domus of the matron Saint Paola who hosted Saint Jerome when he served as secretary to Pope Damasus. Later it was transformed into a small church dedicated to him.[1]
In 1419 the
A fire destroyed the hospice in 1631, damaging the church. In 1632 Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protector of the Archconfraternity, commissioned the architect Francesco Peparelli to renovate the hospice, which remained in operation until 1840, when the building was re-adapted into a convent connected to the church. The church, was rebuilt in 1657 by Domenico Castelli, with a Baroque façade by Carlo Rainaldi.[3]
Interior
The altarpiece for the high altar is a copy of Domenichino's The Last Communion of Saint Jerome (Domenichino). The original, commissioned for San Girolamo in 1612, is now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana.[4]
The first chapel to the right (Cappella Spada), although originally assigned to Orazio Spada in 1575, was refurbished by Virgilio and
The small but superbly finished Antamoro Chapel is dedicated to
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Cappella Antamoro by Juvarra and Le Gros
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Pipe organ
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Side door
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Cappella Spada
Cardinal-Deacons
- Giulio Bevilacqua, C.O. (25 February 1965 - 6 May 1965)
- Antonio Riberi (26 June 1967 - 16 December 1967)
- Paolo Bertoli (30 April 1969 - 5 March 1973)
- Pietro Palazzini (12 December 1974 - 11 October 2000)
- Jorge María Mejía (21 February 2001 - 9 December 2014)
- Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot (5 October 2019 – present)
References
- ^ "Chiesa di San Girolamo della Carità", Turismo Roma, Dipartimento Grandi Eventi, Sport, Turismo e Moda
- ^ "Neri, Philip". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Cambridge University Press. pp. 389–390
- ^ "Via di Monserrato", RomaSegreta
- JSTOR 881575.
- ^ Anthony Blunt, Guide to Baroque Rome, 1982, p.59
- ^ Blunt, 1982, p.60
- ISBN 1-85928-270-9.