Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome
This article includes a Style Baroque | | |
Groundbreaking | 1605 | |
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Completed | 1620 | |
Specifications | ||
Length | 35 m (115 ft) | |
Width | 19 m (62 ft) | |
Clergy | ||
Cardinal protector | Seán Patrick O'Malley[1] |
Santa Maria della Vittoria (English: Saint Mary of Victory,
History
The land for the church was purchased on April 20, 1607,
The order itself funded the building work until the discovery of the Borghese Hermaphroditus in the excavations. Scipione Borghese, Cardinal-nephew of Pope Paul V, appropriated this sculpture but, in return, funded the rest of work on the façade and granted the order his architect, Giovanni Battista Soria. These grants only came into effect in 1624, and work was completed two years later.[2]
Exterior
The church is the only structure entirely designed and completed by the early
Interior
The interior of the church has a single wide nave under a low segmental vault, with three interconnecting side chapels behind arches separated by colossal Corinthian pilasters with gilded capitals that support an enriched entablature. Contrasting marble revetments are enriched with white and gilded stucco angels and putti in full relief. The interior was sequentially enriched after Maderno's death; its vault was frescoed in 1675 with triumphant themes within shaped compartments with feigned frames: The Virgin Mary Triumphing over Heresy and Fall of the Rebel Angels executed by Giovanni Domenico Cerrini in 1675.
Other sculptural detail abounds: The Dream of Joseph (left transept,
Cornaro Chapel
The Cornaro Chapel is a private chapel commissioned by Federico Cornaro to Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Bernini lost papal patronage following the death of Pope Urban VIII and his replacement by Pope Innocent X, who disliked his artistic style, which enabled his commissioning by private patrons at this accomplished stage in his career. The entire architectural and sculptural ensemble of the chapel was designed by Bernini.
The
Titulus
Santa Maria della Vittoria was established as a
- Michelangelo Luchi (1801–1802)
- Joseph Fesch (1803–1822); in commendam (1822–1839)
- Ferdinando Maria Pignatelli (1839–1853)
- Adriano Fieschi (1853–1858)
- Joseph Othmar von Rauscher(1858–1875)
- Godefroy Brossais-Saint-Marc (1876–1878)
- Louis-Edouard-François-Desiré Pie(1879–1880)
- Luigi Jacobini (1880–1887)
- Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (1887–1898)
- Giovanni Battista Casali del Drago (1899–1908)
- François-Marie-Anatole de Rovérié de Cabrières (1911–1921)
- Alexis-Armand Charost (1922–1930)
- Angelo Maria Dolci (1933–1936)
- Federico Tedeschini (1936–1951)
- Giuseppe Siri (1953–1989)
- Giuseppe Caprio (1990–2005)
- Seán Patrick O'Malley, OFM Cap (2006–incumbent)
References
- ^ Official website of the vicariate of Rome Archived November 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c "Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria" (in Italian). Padri Carmelitani Scalzi: Storia. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria" (in Italian). Padri Carmelitani Scalzi. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Cornaro Chapel – Experiencing The Divine". Retrieved 2023-12-19.
- ^ For these visual details of the statue and an examination of the charge of indecency, see Franco Mormando, 'Did Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa Cross a 17th-century Line of Decorum? (Mormando's answer is yes): [1].
- ISBN 978-1-4616-5919-8.
- ^ David M. Cheyney, Catholic-Hierarchy: S. Maria della Vittoria. Retrieved: 2016-03-14.
Sources
- Rendina, Claudio (1999). Enciclopedia di Roma. Rome: Newton Compton.
- Matthiae, Guglielmo (1999). The Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. Rome: Order of the Discalced Carmelite Fathers. ISBN 978-88-86542-86-9.
- Sturm, Saverio (2015). L’architettura dei Carmelitani Scalzi in età barocca: La ‘Provincia Romana’. Lazio, Umbria e Marche (1597-1705). Roma: Gangemi Editore.
- Hibbert, Howard (1965). Bernini. New York: Pelican-Penguin.
- Susanne Juliane Warma (1981). A Study of the Iconography of Bernini's Cornaro Chapel in Santa Maria Della Vittoria Athens: University of Georgia.
- G. Matthiae (1965). S. Maria della Vittoria. Rome.
External links
- Chris Nyborg, "Churches of Rome: Santa Maria della Vittoria"
- Roberto Piperno, "santa Maria della Vittoria"
- "Santa Maria della Vittoria" (in Italian)
- Roma SPQR: "Santa Maria della Vittoria"
Media related to Santa Maria della Vittoria at Wikimedia Commons
Preceded by Santa Maria in Via Lata |
Landmarks of Rome Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome |
Succeeded by San Martino ai Monti |