San Pietro in Montorio
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San Pietro in Montorio
San Pietro in Montorio is a church in Rome, Italy,
which includes in its courtyard The Tempietto (a small
commemorative martyrium) built by Donato Bramante.
History
The church of San Pietro in Montorio was built on the
site of an earlier 9th-century church dedicated to St. Peter
on Rome's Janiculum hill. Commissioned by Ferdinand
and Isabella of Spain, it marks a traditional location of St.
Peter's crucifixion.
The church's current Cardinal-Protector is James Francis
Stafford, since 1 March 2008.
Interior
The church is decorated with artworks by prominent
16th- and 17th-century masters.
The first chapel on the right contains Sebastiano del
Piombo's Flagellation and Transfiguration (1516–1524).
Michelangelo, who had befriended Sebastiano in Rome,
supplied figure drawings that were incorporated into the
Flagellation.
The Tempietto within a narrow courtyard.
The second chapel has a fresco by Niccolò Circignani (1654), some Renaissance frescoes from the school of
Pinturicchio, and an allegorical sibyl and virtue attributed to Baldassarre Peruzzi.
The fourth chapel has a ceiling fresco by Giorgio Vasari. Although there is no grave marker, tradition has it that
Beatrice Cenci—executed in 1599 for the murder of her abusive father and made famous by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
among others—is buried either in this chapel or below the high altar.
The ceiling of the fifth chapel contains another fresco, the Conversion of St. Paul, by Vasari. The altarpiece is
attributed to Giulio Mazzoni, while the funerary monument of Innocenzo Ciocchi Del Monte, Cardinal Giovanni
Maria Del Monte and Roberto Nobili are by Bartolomeo Ammannati.
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Francesco Baratta. Saint Francis in Ecstasy, c. 1640. Raimondi
Chapel, San Pietro in Montorio.
Until 1797, Raphael's final masterpiece, the Transfiguration graced the
high altar; it is now in the Vatican pinacoteca. The altar currently
displays a copy by Cammuccini of Guido Reni's Crucifixion of St.
Peter (also now in Vatican museum).
The last chapel on the left contains a Baptism of Christ, attributed to
Daniele da Volterra, and stucco-work and ceiling frescoes by Giulio
Mazzoni.
Facade of San Pietro in Montorio, with entrance
to the cloister at right.
A pupil of Antoniazzo Romano frescoed the third chapel with the Saint
Anne, Virgin, and Child.
Dirck van Baburen, a central figure of the Dutch Caravaggisti, painted the Entombment for the Pietà Chapel, which
is indebted to Caravaggio's example. Baburen worked with another Dutch artist, David de Heen in this chapel. The
two other paintings, The Mocking of Christ and The Agony in the Garden are variously attributed to either or both of
the artists.
The second chapel on the left, the Raimondi Chapel (1640), was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It includes
Francesco Baratta's "Saint Francis in Ecstasy" and sculptures by Andrea Bolgi and Niccolò Sale.
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Irish chieftains' tombs
At the high altar are two tombs: that of Hugh, Baron of Dungannon,
eldest son of Hugh O'Neill, The O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, and the
tomb shared by Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and his brother
Cathbharr, both of them younger brothers of Red Hugh O'Donnell.
These fled Ireland in 1607. Rory O'Donnell died in 1608, his brother
Cathbharr ("Calfurnius" in the inscription) and Hugh, the son of the
Great Earl, died in 1609. The cause of death in all cases was fever,
probably malaria. Their tombs are covered with marble inscribed slabs
with coloured borders, crests and shields.[1] They are about 12 feet
from the altar on the left as you face it and are normally covered by a
carpet.
Inscription on the tomb of Hugh O'Neill
Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone, himself died in 1616 and was buried in the church with much less solemnity. The
original simple tombstone was lost in about 1849, but the text of the short inscription was copied: "D.O.M. Hugonis
principis ONelli ossa" (Dedicated to God the Best and Greatest. The bones of Prince Hugh O'Neill). In 1989,
Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich laid a new marble plaque with the same inscription in approximately the original place.[1]
The Tempietto
The so-called Tempietto (Italian: "small temple") is a small
commemorative martyrium built by Donato Bramante, possibly as
early as 1502, in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio. It is
considered a masterpiece of High Renaissance architecture. Originally
patronized by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain.
After spending his first years in Milan, Bramante moved to Rome,
where he was recognized by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, the
soon-to-be Pope Julius II. One of Bramante's earliest commissions, the
"Tempietto" is one of the most harmonious buildings of the
Renaissance. It is meant to mark the traditional spot of St. Peter's
martyrdom.
With all the transformations of Renaissance and Baroque Rome that
were to follow, it is hard to sense now what an apparition this building
was in beginning of the 16th century. It is almost a piece of sculpture,
for it has little architectonic use. The building absorbed much of
The Tempietto in Andrea Palladio's Quattro Libri
Brunelleschi's style. Perfectly proportioned, it is composed of slender
(woodcut, 1570).
Tuscan columns, a Doric entablature modeled after the ancient Theater
of Marcellus, and a dome. According to an engraving in Sebastiano
Serlio's Book III, Bramante planned to set it in within a colonnaded courtyard, but this plan was never executed.
San Pietro in Montorio
References
[1] Dr Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Lecture delivered on 11 April 2005 (http:/ / www. rsai. ie/ index. cfm?action=obj. display& obj_id=133)
• Fortunato, Giuseppe " The role of architectural representation for the analysis of the built. The 3d survey of San
Pietro in Montorio's temple in Rome", atti del "X Congreso Internacional expresiòn gràphica aplicada a la
edificacìon, Alicante,Editorial Marfil", S.A., ISBN 978-84-268-1528-6, 2010.
External links
• Satellite Photo (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+via+del+corso,+rome&ll=41.888796,12.466124&
spn=0.003642,0.007339&t=k&hl=en) The Tempietto is the circular dome in the center, enclosed tightly by the
cloister of San Pietro in Montorio. Just west is the white hemicircle of the Acqua Paola.
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