Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia

Sant'Andrea in Via Flaminia, also Sant'Andrea del Vignola, is a church in Rome. It is the first confirmed sacred edifice Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola. Although very small, but it is considered an important step in the development of sacred central buildings.

Location

The church is located in the first Roman quarters Flaminio on the Via Flaminia, Via Enrico Chiaradia corner, about 600 meters south of the Stadio Flaminio and 1100 meters north of the Porta del Popolo. She has her first name from the location, the surname ( common in Rome ) after the builder.

History and Architectural History

Pope Julius III. gave the order for the small construction 1550 It is not entirely clear why. According to one view he should have fulfilled a vow after another to the construction associated with the transfer of the relic of the Holy head to Rome. The contract was awarded to the Vignola - hence the nickname - originating in Modena Giacomo Barozzi possibly in connection with the construction of the nearby Villa Giulia for the Pope, he also received this order in the same year.

Appearance

The building is built as a cube on a slightly elongated rectangular plan, the ratio of length to width is 5:4. Above a running all around Konsolgesimses under the dome cylinder, as with a Konsolgesims; it covers the flat curvature of the actual dome.

The façade follows a reliance on classical models, so the temple-like structure of Roman sepulchral architecture. Two broad pilasters with Corinthian capitals carry the simple, flat triangular gable on the outer sides. To go portal, which is also overlaid by a shallow triangular pediment, two pilasters are again set between are windows that are arched niches in the form of scallops.

Affairs

The interior has a single nave, created easily along rectangular according to the external structure. The walls are divided by a structurally as color graduated system of pilasters, a full perimeter cornice and above which of pilasters. These wall structure was evolutionarily significant. The small apse is rectangular in shape.

The outer dome cylinders are the conditions in the interior not again, the dome has no dome drum, but the cylinder takes directly a part of the dome architecture.

A special feature here ever performed for the first time in the city of Roman architecture, although previously scheduled, on various, is the elliptical dome. The ratio of length to width is 8:7. Since Vignola himself took up the type of ellipse construction in his late church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri again, but there he not only led the dome, but also the layout of elliptical.

The dome shape has been a model for many other churches, as conceivable, for example, for the Church Sebastián de la Plaza in Alcalá de Henares, which was begun in 1617.