The façade of Santa Maria della Pace in an engraving by Giuseppe Vasi (18th century).

Santa Maria della Pace is one of the churches in Rome, not far from Piazza Navona. Giuseppe Vasi (born 27 August 1710 in Corleone, Sicily; died 16 April 1782 in Rome) was an Italian artist, best known for his vedute. ... The facade of Santa Barbara dei Librai, one of the many churches of Rome. ... This article is about the capital of Italy. ... , Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in the middle of Piazza Navona Piazza Navona is a square in Rome. ...

The current building was built on the foundations of pre-existing church of Sant'Andrea de Aquarizariis^[1] in 1482, commissioned by Pope Sixtus IV. The new dedication to the Virgin Mary was chosen to remember the miraculous bleeding of a Madonna image in 1480. The author of the original design is not known, though Baccio Pontelli has been proposed. Sixtus IV, born Francesco della Rovere (July 21, 1414 – August 12, 1484) was Pope from 1471 to 1484. ... Baccio Pontelli (born ca. ...

In 1656-1667 Pope Alexander VII had the edifice restored by Pietro da Cortona, who also added the famous Baroque façade with its concave wings: this, devised to simulate a theatrical set, has two orders and is entered by a semi-circular pronaos with paired Doric columns. The church presses forward almost to fill its tiny piazza, whose space has been exaggerated by Giuseppe Vasi in his engraving; several houses had to be demolished by Pietro da Cortona to create even this miniature trapezoidal space. // Events Mehmed Köprülü becomes Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire. ... Alexander VII, né Fabio Chigi (February 13, 1599 – May 22, 1667) was Pope from April 7, 1655 until his death in 1667. ... Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berettini) (November 1, 1596- May 16, 1669) was a prolific High Baroque artist active mainly in Rome. ... A pronaos is the inner area of the portico of an ancient Greek or Roman temple, situated between the colonnade or walls of the portico and the entrance to the cella or shrine. ... The uncompleted Doric temple at Segesta, Sicily, has been waiting for finishing of its surfaces since 430–420 BC The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. ... Giuseppe Vasi (born 27 August 1710 in Corleone, Sicily; died 16 April 1782 in Rome) was an Italian artist, best known for his vedute. ...

Bramante cloister in Santa Maria della Pace.

The interior, which can be reached from the original fifteenth-century door, has a short nave with cruciform vaulting and a cupola surmounted tribune. Carlo Maderno designed the high altar (1614) to enframe the venerable icon of the Madonna and Child. Façade of St. ... In Jörg Breu the Youngers painting, the Madonna and Child fix the spectator with a gaze that invites the pious to contemplation and prayer The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. ...

Raphael executed the famous fresco of the Sibyls (1514) on the external arch^[2]. The second chapel on the right (Cesi Chapel) was designed by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, and has a very fine Renaissance decoration on the external arch by Simone Mosca, as well as two small frescoes, the Creation of Eve and the Original Sin by Rosso Fiorentino. Self-portrait by Raphael. ... Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (or Antonio Cordiani) (April 12, 1484 - August 3, 1546) was a Florentine architect active during the Italian Renaissance. ... Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro by Rosso Fiorentino (c. ...

The first chapel on the left (Ponzetti Chapel) has noteworthy Renaissance frescoes by Baldassarre Peruzzi, who is better known as an architect. The second chapel has marble taken from the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (7 March 1481—6 January 1537) was an architect and painter, born at Siena and died at Rome. ...

The tribune has paintings by Carlo Maratta, Peruzzi, Orazio Gentileschi, Francesco Albani and others. Carlo Maratta was an Italian painter of the Baroque era. ... Orazio Gentileschi was an Italian painter. ... Francesco Albani, or (Albano) (August 17, 1578 - October 4, 1660), Italian painter, was born at Bologna. ...

The main feature of the church is however the Bramante cloister. Built in 1500-1504, it was the first work of Donato Bramante in the city. It has two floors, the first with arcades on pilasters, the second with arcades on pilasters and columns. Donato Bramante Donato Bramante (1444 - March 11, 1514), Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St. ...

Notes

1. ^ Aquarizariis: "of the water carriers" on whom Rome depended after the aqueducts were broken.
2. ^ . The frescoes were unfinished at Raphael's death (1520) and were completed by Sebastiano del Piombo. Raphael's pupil Timoteo Viti painted the four Prophets.

Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 – June 21, 1547), Italian painter, was born at Venice. ...

References

• Federico Gizzi, Le chiese rinascimentali di Roma, Newton Compton, 1994
• Chris Nyborg, "S. Maria della Pace"

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