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The Baroque facade of Sant'Andrea della Valle
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The church Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome was designed and build by Pier Paolo Olivieri, Francesco Grimaldi, and Carlo Maderno between 1590 in 1650. Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 1100 KB) Baroque facade of the Roman church SantAndrea della Valle, photographed by Reiner Martin (March 2005). ... Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 1100 KB) Baroque facade of the Roman church SantAndrea della Valle, photographed by Reiner Martin (March 2005). ... Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost... Francesco Maria Grimaldi (April 2, 1618 - December 28, 1663) was an Italian mathematician and physicist who taught at the Jesuit college in Bologna. ... Façade of St. ... Events March 14 - Battle of Ivry - Henry IV of France again defeats the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne. ... // Events June 23 - Claimant King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland arrives in Scotland, the only of the three Kingdoms that has accepted him as ruler. ...


Cardinal Alessandro Peretti di Montalto, nephew of Sixtus V funded the works. The close Palace Valle gave the name to the church. The Baroque facade was added between 1655 and 1663 by Carlo Rainaldi, at the expense of Cardinal Francesco Peretti di Montalto, nephew of Alessandro. In the church are present the cenotaphs of popes Pius II and Pius III, whose corpses are buried somewhere in the church. Jump to: navigation, search The word cardinal comes from the Latin cardo for hinge and usually refers to things of fundamental importance, as in cardinal rule or cardinal sins. ... When Felice Peretti was elected Pope Sixtus V April 24, 1585, he appointed his nephew, Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (1571 - 1623), cardinal deacon in the consistory on May 13; the cardinal was then fourteen years old. ... Sixtus V, né Felice Peretti (December 13, 1521 - August 27, 1590) was pope from 1585 to 1590. ... Jump to: navigation, search Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that... Jump to: navigation, search Events May 10 - English troops land on Jamaica March 25 - Saturns largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christian Huygens. ... // Events Prix de Rome scholarship established for students of the arts. ... Carlo Rainaldi (1611, Rome - 1691, Rome) was an Italian architect of the Baroque period. ... Pope Pius II. Pius II, né Enea Silvio Piccolomini, in Latin Aeneas Sylvius (October 18, 1405 - August 14, 1464) was pope from 1458 to 1464. ... Pius III, né Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini (May 9, 1439 - October 18, 1503), was pope from September 22 to October 18, 1503. ...


The first act of the opera Tosca by Puccini is set in Sant'Andrea della Valle. However, the Cappella Attavanti used was a poetic invention. Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardous drama, La Tosca. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...


The Cardinal Priest of the Title of Sant'Andrea della Valle is Giovanni Cardinal Canestri. Cardinal Priests are the most numerous of the three orders of Cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church. ...

The dome of Sant'Andrea della Valle Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1360, 1090 KB) Dome of the Roman church SantAndrea della Valle, photographed by Reiner Martin (March 2005). ...

The interior of Sant'Andrea della Valle Jump to: navigation, search ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1360x2048, 783 KB) A look at the interior of the Roman church SantAndrea della Valle, photographed by Reiner Martin (March 2005). ...


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