where: Via Giulia, 262
getting there: half-way down Via Giulia near the Arco Farnese
getting there: half-way down Via Giulia near the Arco Farnese
open: 10:00-12:15 & 16:00-18:00 possibly closed July and August
I've always been curious to see inside Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte, the church on Via Giulia near the Farnese Arch, but every time I've tried to visit the church — decorated with skulls and winged skeletons — I've found it to be closed.
The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and its name translates to Saint Mary of Prayer and Death.
It was built in 1575 by a charity that took on the responsibility of burying the abandoned corpses of the poor people of Rome.
The church was remodeled in 1733 and the facade decorated with the gorgeous laureled skulls and winged skeletons on the marble alms boxes.
I've always been curious to see inside Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte, the church on Via Giulia near the Farnese Arch, but every time I've tried to visit the church — decorated with skulls and winged skeletons — I've found it to be closed.
The church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and its name translates to Saint Mary of Prayer and Death.
It was built in 1575 by a charity that took on the responsibility of burying the abandoned corpses of the poor people of Rome.
The church was remodeled in 1733 and the facade decorated with the gorgeous laureled skulls and winged skeletons on the marble alms boxes.
Inside the church are frescoes by Giovanni Lanfranco of St Anthony Abbot and St Paul of Thebes and an altarpiece by Ciro Ferri of the Crucifixion.
There is a copy of Guido Reni's St Michael and the Angel in the Chapel of Saint Michael and the sacristy has paintings by Giacinto Brandi.
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