Cappella Borghese in Rome

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Artistic jewel of rare beauty, is a place where it merges art and religious feeling: the icon of the Salus Populi Romani, the pious tradition, painted by the evangelist Luke welcomes his mother's eyes those who come to her. Saliva on the papal throne in 1605 Paul V (1605-1621) to whom we owe the Chapel of Our Lady, also known as Paolina Borghese, as opposed to the Sistine Chapel and its symmetric in the plant and in the architectural scheme. Although it is in fact a Greek cross, with the Corinthian and has four large arches, supported by pilasters, on which rests the dome.

It was built to guard the image of Our Lady "Salus Populi Romani", the order of Paul V, designed by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (1560-1618), between the years 1606 and 1612, the consecration took place on January 27, 1613 but the decorative work continued in subsequent years. It cost the Apostolic Chamber, the sum of 299,261 crowns and 61 cents. In just 25 years younger than the Sistine Chapel, the decoration free and impetuous. With its marble and the matching gold frames, with bronze angels (a radiant beauty) and stucco (which is soaring with wings and vibrant smile), with its majestic altar, whose deep blue enchants those who enjoy the details, with its grandiose monuments and refined, the Borghese signs indicative of the first occurrence of the Baroque which gives it a unique vibration of joy and life. The most famous artists of the time or manner competed nell'adornarla.

The first model of the altar was made of pear wood in 1607 and a year after the smelter began Pompey Targon efforts to conclude in September 1612. The book glitters with gold-plated metal, airy and lively cast in the form of angels, which support the frame which encloses the Salus Populi Romani, shaped by Camillo Mariani: the richness of detail and the preciousness of the contrasts in light and shadow animate Mariani's Angels owe much to the Florentine Mannerist Sansovino, but can also result in a powerful lyric acute able to alleviate the high mass of architecture. Mariani also sculpted the statue of St. Giovanni Evangelista. Without a doubt the most interesting piece of decorative sculpture within membranature altar altar is a bas-relief on the front, by Stefano Maderno depicting Pope Liberius, which traces the perimeter of the basilica in the snow. Maderno is also responsible for the angels holding scrolls on the sides of the tombs. The altar table was offered in 1749 by the Princess Borghese Agnese Colonna, whose coat of arms engraved upon it.

Giuseppe Cesari, called the Cavalier d'Arpino, played in the lunette above the altar on the left, the painting represents the apparition of Our Lady and St John the Evangelist St. Gregory Healer, and to the right people bitten by the serpent of heresy and the Temple of God with a crowd of true believers. The same artist also painted in the spandrels of the dome of the great prophets Isaiah, looking thin, white hair and beard, in a blue tunic, red robe and bare feet; Jeremiah forehead bald, hoary beard, dresses in blue and yellow coat that surrounds him fall to his feet, Ezekiel young-looking, blond hair, rosy cheeks, beardless, in a red robe with blue lists, with no sleeves (thus resulting bare arms) and yellow coat that surrounds the person , Daniel Young seated, with long flowing hair, white complexion, blue dress embroidered in gold, sleeves rolled up, a purple cloak. The Cavaliere has painted, in the arch, the Saints Bishops Ignatius, Theophilus, Irenaeus and Cyprian.

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