Basilica of Sant'Agostino
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The church of Sant'Agostino (Latin: Sancti Augustini ), Basilica di Sant'Agostino completely in Campo Marzio, since 1587 is one of the titular churches of Rome and was established in 1999 raised to the minor Basilica. It is located in the Piazza Sant'Agostino about 150 m northeast of the Piazza Navona in the district of S. Eustachio.
Architectural History
The church is located on a plot owned by the Augustinian Order since the year 1286. From 1296 they built the first Gothic church. This was in the years 1479 to the designs of the architect Sebastiano Fiorentino and Giacomo Pietrasanta replaced until 1483 by the current. It is one of the first Roman churches in the Renaissance style. A part of the building material, travertine, for the strictly structured facade comes from the Colosseum.
In the years 1756 to 1763 the church was rebuilt according to designs by Luigi Vanvitelli. From him also came the sacristy from the year 1746. Vanvitelli also removed the dome, the first Renaissance dome, which was completed in Rome. From 1746 on Vanvitelli also built the convent building west of the church again. Only the side of the Via the Pianellari the facade of the 16th century remained. At the Piazza Sant'Agostino is the Biblioteca Angelica, whose interiors were designed by Francesco Borromini.
Interior decoration
The three-nave church is built on the plan of a Latin cross. The nave is supported by polychrome Marmorpilastern. The building on the right and left sides connected five chapels. The church contains numerous works of art of the highest order. Many images in the church date by the painter Giovanni Lanfranco, who was commissioned in 1616 with the decoration.
Just to the right of the main entrance is a sculpture of the Madonna del Parto by Jacopo Sansovino, which was created in the years 1518-1521. The fresco prophet Isaiah, on the third pilaster, Raphael created in the years 1511-1512. Below is a sculpture Anna with Madonna and Child by Andrea Sansovino from the year 1512.
In the right transept is a painting by Guercino, which shows the Saints Augustine, Jerome and John the Baptist.
In the left transept is a statue of Thomas of Villanova and was created by Ercole Ferrata.
In the first chapel on the left, the chapel Cavaletti, the image of the Madonna dei Pellegrini, the Caravaggio painted around the year 1605 depends. A scandal triggered it, as a city known prostitute was detected in the model for the Madonna. Even the dirty feet of the kneeling shepherds presented represents a hitherto unknown Realism
The high altar was created in the years 1626 to 1628 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
In a chapel on the left of the high altar is the grave of the holy Monika laying of Tagaste (c. 332 in Tagaste in Numidia, † October 387 in Ostia), the mother of St. Augustine of Hippo, in a sarcophagus of Isaia di Pisa. The relics of the saint were transferred in 1430 from Ostia to Sant'Agostino.
Organ
The history of the organ dates back to the year 1431st The present instrument dates from the year 1905. It was built by the organ builder Carlo Vegezzi - Bossi. The organ has 32 registers on three manuals and pedal. The tracker action are pneumatic.