Santa Maria degli Angeli Rome, Historic Italian Building Photos, Ancient Design Picture
Santa Maria degli Angeli, Roma : St Mary of the Angels Rome
St Mary of the Angels : Historic Roman Building with work by Michelangelo and Vanvitelli, Italy
Santa Maria degli Angeli Roma
St Mary of the Angels Rome
Location: Piazza della Republicca, northeast Rome
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part created from Diocletian Baths, with a complex history and set of dates.
Involvement of Michelangelo and Vanvitelli
Focal point to Via Nazionale
The basilica is dedicated to the Christian martyrs, known and unknown. By a brief in 1561, Pius IV ordered the church “built”, to be dedicated to the Beatissimae Virgini et omnium Angelorum et Martyrum (“the Most Blessed Virgin and all the Angels and Martyrs”).
Impetus for this dedication had been generated by the account of a vision experienced in the ruins of the Baths in 1541 by a Sicilian monk, Antonio del Duca, who had been lobbying for decades for papal authorization of a more formal veneration of the Angelic Princes. A story that these Martyrs were Christian slave labourers who had been set to constructing the Baths is modern. It was also a personal monument of Pope Pius IV, whose tomb is in the apsidal tribune.
Roman Buildings : Traditional architecture
Adjacent buildings:
Piazza della Republicca
photograph © Adrian Welch
Terme di Diocleziano – Diocletian’s Baths
Museo Nazionale Romano
Adjacent building in north east Rome:
British Embassy Rome
photograph © Adrian Welch
Italian historic building images © Adrian Welch : available upon request: photos 2816×2112 pixels
Location: Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome, Italy
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Key Architecture close to this Piazza della Republicca building:
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
photograph © Adrian Welch
Roman Architecture – Selection:
The Pantheon
photo © Adrian Welch
St Peters Basilica
photograph © Adrian Welch
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