San Girolamo della CaritÃ
00186 Roma
San Girolamo della Carita (Latin: Sancti Hieronymi a caritate in via Iulia ) is a church in Rome. She is also a title diakonia of the Roman Catholic Church and is home to two major bands of the Baroque and other works of art.
Location
The church is located in the Rione VII Roman Regola about 70 meters northwest of the Palazzo Farnese.
History and Architectural History
Your name, the Church, therefore, that it is Brotherhood Church of the Confraternity of Charity (Italian della Carita ). This Brotherhood was founded in 1524 by Pope Clement VII to health and care for the poor. The predecessor of the present-day building was first Roman residence Philip Neri before he moved to the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella on papal command.
The present building was built after a fire the previous building from 1654 to 1660, architect was Domenico Castelli. The façade was designed by Carlo Rainaldi.
Appearance
The rich facade is a classic facade Roman High Baroque. It has two floors, the lower floor is divided into three parts by a differentiated program of Doppelpilastern with capitals of the Corinthian order on the left and right of the portal. In the remaining space between the lateral corner pilasters blind windows are set. The pilasters support a cranked architrave, which takes over the arch motif of Portalädikula in the middle section on the portal. The upper floor is repeated in the central part the program of the central part of the basement, the pilasters now carry composite style. The design of the portal is repeated in the arched windows of the upper floor, this is surmounted by a broken pediment. Instead to the removed side parts of the building is flanked by volutes. One again openwork triangular pediment crowns the facade, by the repeated insertion of a round arch in the gable gives the impression of voices in it façade.
Affairs
The small building is built on a cruciform floor plan nave, the left and right of the nave and the high altar to open a total of six side chapels, two of which are art-historically significant.
The Capella Spada is the first on the right side. It is not quite clear who she has built. The older literature came from Borromini, the source finds they may have been built by Virgilio Spada. Unlike other Baroque side chapels, it waives a balustrade to the longhouse for the delimitation, two angels hold a cloth instead. Also unusual is the covering of the walls with ornamental elements different colored marble, here is possibly a reference to Neapolitan models conceivable. The attached here pictures and reliefs - partly by Ercole Ferrata and Cosimo Fancelli - depend only on hooks in the wall. They are not, as usual, surrounded by the architecture of the chapel. Together with the benches on which two members of the Spada family are shown, and only just established the urns buried in here family members results in the " impression of a private Gemachs, which acts more like a living room than as a chapel ."
The Capella Antamoro left of the high altar, is the only Roman by Filippo Juvarra, who was later appointed architect of St. Peter's in 1725. Started in 1708, it was completed in 1710 as a grave chapel of Antamoro family. The rectangular floor plan was unusually filled by Juvara. He set the corner posts with convex bases diagonally into the space and built over a rounded in the corners architrave an almost oval dome and coffered with diagonal ribs. The altar is also convex designed so that the spatial impression of an ellipse is formed. The large oval window behind the figure of St. Filippo Neri, the chapel is consecrated, whose statue is effectively staged. The entire chapel is covered with polychrome marble and decorated with gold leaf, decorated in a vault with rich stucco decorations. Grundmann refers to the basic structure of a reference to Michelangelo Capella Sforza in Santa Maria Maggiore, in the use of colored marble parallels to the work of the teacher Juvarra, Carlo Fontana, as well as in the figurative embodiment, such Bernini.
The coffered wooden ceiling of the church was probably worked around 1587 and comes from so that even the predecessor.
The church also contains a tomb for M. Acuto, created by Pietro da Cortona in the left transept.
The high altar was executed according to the designs of Carlo Rainaldi, the altarpiece is a copy of Domenichino's Communion of St. Jerome, the original is in the Vatican Pinacoteca.
See also: List of Cardinal Deacon of San Girolamo della Carita
Opening times
The church is open from 08:00 to 12:00 clock in the morning and 16:00 to 19:00 clock in the afternoon. The current access is not via the main portal, but via a located at Via di San Girolamo della Carita page portal.