San Marcello al Corso

San Marcello (Latin: Sancti Marcelli ), also San Marcello al Corso is a church in Rome. She's monastery church of the Servites and titular church of the Roman Catholic Church. It stands on a site, is said to have suffered at the 4th century Marcellus I. his martyrdom, was newly built or rebuilt in the 9th and 12th centuries, completely rebuilt after a fire in the early 16th century and ultimately Baroque. It contains some exquisite monuments.

Location

The church is located in Rione Trevi Roman II at the same Piazza di San Marcello, a small square directly on the Via del Corso, about 250 meters north of the Piazza Venezia.

History and Architectural History

The church is to stand on the spot where - according to legend - the then Bishop of Rome, Marcellus I., under the Roman Emperor Maxentius was forced to do work as a stable boy and died as a result of the heavy work. He is said to have dedicated his house as a church during his lifetime. Under the pontificate of Pope Gregory IV, a church was built in the 9th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th century in the Romanesque style. This building burned in 1518 or 1519 almost completely, were preserved only the walls of the former western transept. After the fire, Jacopo Sansovino designed the new building, he directed the construction work to 1526th He turned the construction complete, the old apse was at today's Via del Corso, while running after his draft tonight's portal is there. After his departure from Rome this year led Antonio da Sangallo the Younger up the work, he completed the church to 1593rd Only the facade was not completed until nearly a century later by Carlo Fontana about 1682/83.

Basic structure

The church is today a nave, flat roofed hall building is a total open ten side chapels from the nave from. Model for this may have been in Florence SS Annzunziata.

Facade

The facade of the church is a classic of the Roman High Baroque. It is also completely characterized by a concave sweep, the da Cortona was a style element of the baroque facade design since the work Pietro. The lower floor is divided by a graduated program of columns, the left and right of the portal two double columns, standing behind a simple full column; the predetermined structure by the double column is further conducted on the wall surface in the side pillars of the portal. This is followed close niches with statues; the statues are from Francesco Cavallini. The relief over the portal is by Antonio Raggi, it represents the St Philip Benizi Represents the portal is arched above the architrave of a perforated circular pediment, originally a relief at this point was instead of the current window provided. The upper floor of the facade repeats the structure of the basement, take the place of the columns as structural elements now pilasters, only the outer columns of the ground floor remain as a final structuring elements equal. Remarkable and very unusual for Rome is that usually on the outer sides of the upper floor as connecting elements expected to lower level volutes are replaced by palm branches. The simple but quite strongly contoured and once stepped pediment completes the facade. It is modeled on that of SS Vincenzo ed Anastasio and was designed by Martino Longhi the Younger. The facade of San Marcello in turn inspired Francesco De Sanctis for his design of the main facade of the Roman church of the Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini (1722 /23).

Affairs

The magnificent ceiling of the church dates from the late 16th century. A wide triumphal arch separates the apse from the nave. The decor of the church is kept in the usual forms of Roman Baroque, painted exceedingly rich and provided with gilded stucco. There is a great dramatic crucifixion scene, created in 1613 by Giovanni Battista Ricci About the portal on the inside. Links to see the entrance is a double tomb of Jacopo Sansovino, created around 1519. Buried here were Antonio Orso and the Cardinal Giovanni Michiel, the latter a nephew of Pope Paul II.

Third chapel on the right

The chapel contains the grave of Bishop Matteo Grifoni, he died in 1567. Tuscanesque The work should have been influenced by Michelangelo.

Fourth chapel on the right

This chapel contains a wooden crucifix. It comes from the previous building and survived the fire 1518 / 19th The frescoes in this chapel began Pierin del Vaga, by the sack of Rome in 1527, the execution was interrupted, they were then completed by Daniele da Volterra and Pellegrino Tibaldi.

Fourth chapel on the left

In the chapel, frescoes by Taddeo Zuccari. His brother Federico Zuccari created the altarpiece Conversion of Saint Paul in 1558. It also busts are here bestatteter members of the Frangipani family in the chapel.

Sacristy

In the sacristy there is a painting of a crucifixion scene and Anthony van Dyck is attributed.