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Typology: Non Parish Church

Address

Address: Piazza della Trinità dei Monti
Zone: Rione Campo Marzio (P.Spagna-P.Popolo-Pincio) (Roma centro)

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Opening times

For the timetable of the masses and visiting conditions, please consult the contacts.

Description

The first part of the church of Trinità dei Monti was built between 1502 and 1519 in Gothic style; the oldest part, covered by ogival cross vaults, is bordered by a bronze gate.
A new body of the building was added to the Gothic nave towards the middle of the 16th century, covered by a barrel vault and enclosed by a façade adorned with two symmetrical bell towers, the work of Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Maderno. The church was consecrated in 1585 by Pope Sixtus V. In one of the first chapels, Daniele da Volterra left a famous cycle of frescoes in 1541, including the beautiful Deposition, unanimously considered one of the pinnacles of Mannerism.
The eighth chapel on the right (Massimo Chapel) houses a beautiful cycle of frescoes by Perin del Vaga (Stories from the Old and New Testament; 1537), completed between 1563 and 1589 by Taddeo and Federico Zuccari. The Baptism of Christ and the frescoes in the Chapel of St John the Baptist are by Giovanni Battista Naldini (1580). Originally, the church also contained an altarpiece by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
In front of the church, towards the end of the 18th century, Pope Pius VI had the architect Antinori erect the Sallustian Obelisk, the penultimate of the great obelisks erected in papal Rome, made in Imperial Roman times in imitation of the Egyptian obelisks.

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Last checked: 2022-09-05 16:37