Containers:

Box 270, Box 271

Extent:

134 items

Scope and content:

Artist Name: Della Porta, Giacomo; Maderno, Carlo; Rainaldi, Carlo; Fontana, Carlo; Raggi, Antonio; Grimaldi, Giovanni Francesco; Galimberti, Francesco; Monti, Francesco; Nobili, F.; Caroselli, Angelo; Rondone, Franc.; Paolo Romano (Paolo di Mariano di Tuccio Taccone); Bregno, Andrea (Andrea da Milano); Ferrucci, Francesco di Giovanni; Ferrucci, Sebastiano di Francesco; Lanfranco, Giovanni; Algardi, Alessandro; Domenichino; Preti, Mattia; Cignani, Carlo; Taruffi, Emilio; Bazzani, Cesare; Guidi, Domenico; Castelli, Matteo; Passignano, Domenico; Mochi, Francesco; Buonvicino, Ambrogio; Bernini, Pietro; Stati, Cristoforo; Bernini, Gian Lorenzo; Coccia, Francesco; Giorgetti, Giuseppe; Olivieri, Pier Paolo

Post-medieval: Architecture, frescoes, stucco, painting, sculpture, architectural sculpture, sculptural relief

Object Notes: Exhibiting the passage from Counter-Reformation to Baroque, it is one of the most vast churches in Rome (the most vast with one nave), and its cupola, which measures 80 meters in heighth is the heighest after that of S. Peter's. Construction was initiated in 1591 by Olivieri, the cupola was completed in 1625 by Maderno.

Access and use