Rome architecture designs

Santa Susanna Fontane Rome, Italy – design by Carlo Maderno architect – Santa Susanna photos, architecture: historic Roman building.

While many other medieval churches in Rome have been given Baroque makeovers that cover Gothic structures, the Minerva is the only extant example of original Gothic church building in Rome.

The Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, ‘Basilica of Saint Mary Major’, is a Papal major basilica and the largest Catholic Marian church in Rome, Italy, from which size it receives the appellation “major”.

The church is the only structure designed and completed by the early Baroque architect Carlo Maderno, though the interior suffered a fire in 1833 and required restoration.

Santa Maria della Pace, Rome, northeast of Piazza Navona. Historic Roman church building in the centre of the city (Campus Martius), including the beautiful Bramante Cloister.

St Mary of the Angels Rome. Location: Piazza della Republicca, northeast Rome, part created from Diocletian Baths, complex history/dates. Involvement of Michelangelo and Vanvitelli.

In the portico of the church, on the north side, can be found La Bocca della Verità, an ancient sculpture thought to be a drain covering.

A church was initially planned when Donna Costanza Piccolomini d’Aragona, duchess of Amalfi and descendant of the family of Pope Pius II, bequeathed her palace and the adjacent church of San Sebastiano in central Rome to the Theatine order for construction of a new church.

The Church of Saint Andrew’s at the Quirinal (Italian: Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, Latin: S. Andreae in Quirinali) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built for the Jesuit seminary on the Quirinal Hill.

The construction the church was funded by Guillaume d’Estouteville, Archbishop of Rouen and Cardinal Camerlengo (1477-1483).

Beatufiul baroque church famous for its complex interior domes and also for its flowing facade. It features in many histories of World Architecture.

This Rome church, also called Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari (“Saints Blaise and Charles in Catinari”) is an early-Baroque style church building. It is located on Piazza Benedetto Cairoli.