Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Santa Maria degli Angeli

Accession Number: 
189386
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module SEVEN--6,160 images
Type of View: 
generalView
View Title: 
Interior, opulent Baroque decoration by Carlo Maratta at end of left transept, (new) Chapel of St. Bruno (1700), organ visible at left
Date of View: 
4/8/2009
Image description: 
The chapel at the end of the transept was constructed as part of the restoration works for the 1700 Jubilee. Above the altar is Giovanni Odazzi's painting The Apparition of the Virgin Mary to St Bruno. It shows the Blessed Virgin handing the Order's Rule to St Bruno. The vault was painted by Andrea Procaccini with figures of the Evangelists, while the rest of the decorations were painted by Antonio Bicchierai.
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module SEVEN
Culture: 
Ancient Roman
Culture: 
Italian
Subject: 
Pius IV, Pope, 1499-1565
Subject: 
Restoration and conservation
Subject: 
Roman Empire
Subject: 
Diocletian, Emperor of Rome, 245-313
Work Types: 
Architecture; religious structures; churches
Work Types: 
Architecture; health facilities; public baths
Related Work Title: 
Baths of Diocletian; formerlyPartOf
Preferred Title: 
Santa Maria degli Angeli
Agent Display: 
Luigi Vanvitelli (Italian architect, 1700-1773); Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564); unknown (Ancient Roman)
Date: 
1749-1750 (alteration)
Materials: 
stone; brick; stucco; marble; rose-granite
Technique: 
carving (processes)
Measurement: 
344 ft (width, total) x 420 ft (length, total)
Alternate Title: 
Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs
Alternate Title: 
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
Locations: 
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Baroque
Style/Period: 
Imperial (Roman)
Classification: 
Architecture