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Santa Maria della Vittoria
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Santa Maria della Vittoria is a small basilicachurch inRome, on
Via XX Settembre.
History
The church was begun in 1605 as a chapel dedicated to
Saint Paul for the Discalced Carmelites. After the Catholic
victory at the battle of White Mountain in 1620, which
reversed the Reformation in Bohemia, the church was
rededicated to the Virgin Mary. (Turkish standards
captured at the 1683 siege of Vienna hang in the church,as part
of this victorious theme.)
The order itself funded the building work until the
discovery in the excavations of the Borghese
Hermaphroditus. Scipione Borghese appropriated this
sculpture but in return (and to make up for his loss of
influence due to the death of his uncle and
patron) funded the rest of work on the facade and granted the
order his architect Giovanni Battista
Soria. These grants only came into effect in 1624 however,
though work was completed two years later.
Overview
Architectural
The church is the only structure designed and completed by the
early Baroque architect Carlo Maderno,
though the interior suffered a fire in 1833 and required
restoration. Its faade, however, was erected by
Soria during Maderno's lifetime, 16241626, showing the
unmistakable influence of Maderno's Santa
Susanna nearby.
Its interior has a single wide nave under a low segmental vault,
with three interconnecting side chapels
behind arches separated by colossal corinthian pilasters with
gilded capitals that support an enriched
entablature. Contrasting marble revetments are enriched with
white and gilded stucco angels and putti
in full relief. The interior was sequentially enriched after
Maderno's death; its vault was frescoed in 1675with triumphant
themes within shaped compartments with feigned frames: The Virgin
Mary Triumphing
Facade of Santa Maria della Vittoria
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Sculptural
The masterpiece in the Cornaro Ch
altar, is Ecstasy of St. Teresa by Sci
Bernini. The statues depict a mome
Teresa of Avila in her autobiographvision of an angel piercing
her hear
causing her both immense joy and
and contorted posture abandon cla
to depict a more passionate, almos
Other sculptural detail abounds: Th
transept, Domenico Guidi, flanked
Etienne Monnot) and the funeral m
Cardinal Gessi. There are paintings
Lorrain, and Domenichino.
Tituli
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