Trinità dei Monti
Trinità dei Monti | |
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Church of the Most Holy Trinity on the Mounts | |
Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Monti | |
Giacomo Della Porta, Annibale Lippi, Carlo Maderno | |
Architectural type | Renaissance |
Administration | |
Diocese | Rome |
The Church of Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called simply Trinità dei Monti (French: La Trinité-des-Monts), is a
History
In 1494,
The present Italian Renaissance church was eventually built in its place and finally consecrated in 1585 by the great urbanizer
In front of the church stands the Obelisco Sallustiano, one of the many
During the
The inscriptions found in Santissima Trinità dei Monti, a valuable source illustrating the history of the church, have been collected and published by Vincenzo Forcella.[5]
Interior
In the first chapel to the right is a Baptism of Christ and other scenes of the life of John the Baptist by the Florentine
In the Cappella Pucci, on the left, are frescoes (1537) by Perino del Vaga finished by Federico and Taddeo Zuccari in 1589. The second chapel on the left has a well-known canvas of the Deposition by Daniele da Volterra; flanking it are frescoes by Pablo de Céspedes and Cesare Arbasia. The first chapel on the left has frescoes by Nebbia. In the sacristy anteroom are more frescoes by Taddeo Zuccari: a Coronation of the Virgin, an Annunciation, and a Visitation.
In a niche along a corridor that opens onto the cloister, is the fresco (reputed to be miraculous) of the
Gallery
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The Nave
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The High Altar
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Deposition by
Wilhelm Achtermann -
Assumption of the Virgin by Daniele da Volterra
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Descent from the Cross by Daniele da Volterra
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The Virgin Mary (the fresco known as
'Mater Admirabilis')
Convent
The refectory has a frescoed ceiling by Andrea Pozzo. In the cloister there is an astrolabes table, and along a corridor are the anamorphic frescoes (steeply sloping perspectives that have to be viewed from a particular point to make pictorial sense), portraying St John on Patmos and St Francis of Paola as a hermit all by Emmanuel Maignan (1637). An upper room was painted with ruins by Charles-Louis Clérisseau.
Religious affiliations
The kings of France remained patrons of the church until the French Revolution and the church continued to be the church of the Minim Friars until its partial destruction in 1798.[8]
It has been a
By the Diplomatic Conventions of 14 May and 8 September 1828 between the
In 2003 the French government were proposing to make funds available for necessary work on the church but was concerned that the Society might find it difficult to continue their work there in the future and in March 2003 the Society decided that it would withdraw from the Trinità no later than the summer of 2006. On 12 July 2005, the Vatican and the French Embassy to the Holy See announced that the Church, Convent and school would be entrusted from 1 September 2006 to the Monastic Fraternities of Jerusalem.[9]
Since 2016 the care of the Trinité des Monts complex has been entrusted to the Emmanuel Community through an agreement by the Holy See and the French Government.
See also
References
- ^ Lotz p.123, and also on p.184 (note 40) referring, on the question of the authorship, typology and dating of the facades of S Atanasio and this church, to G. Giovannoni: Saggi sull'architettura del rinascimento (2nd edn. Milan. 1953) pp.219ff. Touring Club Italiano, Roma e dintorni (1965:269) attributed the facade to Carlo Maderno but Howard Hibberd's Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580–1630 (London. 1971) does not mention this church as a work of Maderno or even as a work wrongly attributed to him.
- ^ Macadam p.171; TCI 1965.
- ^ Touring Club Italiano 1965:269.
- ^ a b Macadam p.171
- ^ V. Forcella, Inscrizioni delle chese e d' altre edifici di Roma, dal secolo XI fino al secolo XVI Volume III (Roma: Fratelli Bencini, 1873), pp. 104–170. [in Italian and Latin]
- ^ TCI 1965:270.
- ^ "Visions of Jesus Christ.com – Miraculous fresco Mater Admirabilis, Mother Most Admirable". www.visionsofjesuschrist.com. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ Hutton p.245
- ^ RSJCinternational.org Archived 1 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, website of the Society of the Sacred Heart for the history of the change
- Additional sources
- Maillard, Sébastien (25 July 2016). "A Rome, la Trinité-des-Monts est confiée à la communauté de l'Emmanuel". La Croix (in French).
- Hutton, Edward: Rome (1911. 7th revised & enlarged edn:1950)
- Lotz, Wolfgang: Architecture in Italy 1500–1600. (1974. Yale U.P.edition 1995)
- Macadam, Alta: Rome (Blue Guides. 6th edition. London. 1998)
External links
- More pictures of the church from RomeArtLover.it
- Gabriel Chow, GCatholic.org, Cardinal Protectors of Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio