Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Santa Maria degli Angeli (Rome)
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Preferred Title:
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Santa Maria degli Angeli (Rome)
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Alternate Title:
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Santa Maria degli Angeli
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Image View:
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View looking up, showing the ceiling
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Creator:
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564)
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Location:
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site: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Date:
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ca. 1562-1565 (creation); ca. 1749 (alteration)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Imperial (Roman); Renaissance
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Work Type 1:
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church
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Classification:
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architecture
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Material:
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stone; marble
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architectural exteriors; rulers and leaders; Pius IV, Pope, 1499-1565; Roman Empire; vault
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Description:
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As part of his urban improvements to this area of Rome, Pope Pius IV took up the campaign of a Sicilian visionary Antonio del Duca (brother of the architect Giacomo del Duca) that a part of the ancient Baths of Diocletian (298-306 CE) should be re-dedicated for Christian use. Michelangelo was called in to convert the tepidarium into the Carthusian church of S Maria degli Angeli (built from 1562). He oriented it north-east/south-west, with the main door and high altar on the short axis and long 'transepts' ending in side-entrances. His interventions were minimal. Because the original groin vaulting and the great rose-granite columns that supported it were largely intact, Michelangelo simply walled off the transepts from the rooms beyond, built a long barrel-vaulted choir behind the altar, whitewashed the vault and tiled the roof. The present opulent interior is the result of a major reworking by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century, which obscures Michelangelo's intentions. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://ww
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module One
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Identifier:
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1A2-I-R-SMA-A6
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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