Giacinto and Ludovico Gimignani

Giacinto Gimignani
Santa Maria dell'Anima

Giacinto Gimignani c.1606 - 1681

Giacinto Gimignani was born in Pistioa and was trained by his father artist Alessio.

In 1630 he traveled to Rome and by 1632 he was working for Pietro da Cortona on the fresco lunette Rest on the Flight to Egypt in Palazzo Barberini for the Barberini family and in San Giovanni in Laterano under the guidance of Andrea Sacchi.

In 1648 he assisted Pietro da Cortona with the decorations in Palazzo Pamphilj, then during the 1650s he worked in Florence completing cartoons for tapestries, the decorations in the Palazzo Rospigliosi in Pistoia and working in  Lucca and Camerino.

In the 1660s he returned to Rome working under the direction of Gianlorenzo Bernini for Pope Alexander VII with son Ludovico, painting altarpieces in Castel Gandolfo and Santa Maria di Monti.

Around 1676 he began the fresco in the apse refectory in the monastery of San Carlo ai Catineri and worked on  altarpieces in the churches of Perugia and Amelia.

He died in 1681 in Rome.

Giacinto Gimignani Art in Rome
Santa Maria dell'Anima
San Carlo ai Catineri
Palazzo Pamphilj
Palazzo Barberini
San Giovanni in Laterano
Santa Maria di Monti

Ludovico Gimignani
Sant'Andrea delle Fratte

Ludovico Gimignani 1643 - 1697

Ludovico Gimignani was Born in Rome in 1643 and trained by his father, Giacinto Gimingani who was an established artist.

His first documented work was in San Silvestro in Capite under supervision from his father, Bernini and patron Pope Alexander VII.

In 1668 he traveled to Venice and Modena accompanied by Giovanni Battista Gauli (il Baciccio), supported by Cardinal Giulio Rospigliosi, who later became Pope Clement IX and carried letters of recommendation from Bernini.

He worked in San Carlo al Corso and Palazzo Madama and completed the refurbishment of San Silvestro in Capite after death of Mattia de Rossi, where he painted altarpieces and frescoed the apse and transepts and completed stucco work in the nave.

Ludovico Gimignani Art in Rome
Santa Maria Maggiore

San Silvestro in Capite

San Crisogono
Sant'Andrea delle Fratte
Santa Maria in Montesanto
Life of St Maddalena dei Pazzi (1669)
il Gesù
San Luigi dei Francesi
Santa Maria in Campitelli
Santa Maria delle Vergini
San Silvestro in Capite
San Lorenzo in Lucina
San Carlo al Corso

Santa Maria in Campitelli

where: Piazza di Campitelli, 9
getting there: short walk from bus 64/stop Venezia, near the Theatre of Marcellus
open: daily 7:00-19:00

The 17th century Baroque church of Santa Maria in Campitelli was designed by Carlo Rainaldi and dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It was commissioned by Pope Alexander VII to hold an 11th century icon of the Virgin Mary which allegedly saved the people of Rome from the plague. 

inside:

The icon of the Virgin Mary, surrounded by a Gloria, is displayed at the main altar. 

Near the sanctuary is il Baciccio's painting of The Nativity of St John the Baptist.

In the second chapel on the right is Luca Giordano's painting of Saints Anne, Joseph and Mary.

In the first chapel on the left is the Holy Family by Lorenzo Ottoni and the Conversion of Saint Paul by Ludovico Gimignani is in the third chapel.

Sebastiano Conca

Luca Giordano

il Baciccio


Artists in Santa Maria in Campitelli
il Baciccio
Luca Giordano
Lorenzo Ottoni
Ludovico Gimignani
Sebastiano Conca
Giacinto Calandrucci
Carlo Maratta
Guido Reni

San Giuseppe alla Lungara

where: Via della Lungara, 45, Trastevere
open: Monday to Saturday 16:30-19:00, Sunday 9:00-13:30

One my way to visit the Corsini Gallery I came across San Giuseppe alla Lungara. This little church was consecrated in the 18th century and dedicated to Saint Joseph.

The ceiling fresco is by Filippo Frigiotti and in the pendentives are frescoes of the Four Doctors of the Church by Vincenzo Paliotti from 1859.

Many of the paintings in the church are by Mariano Rossi including the high altarpiece the Dream of Saint Joseph, with the Adoration of the Magi and Slaughter of the Innocents on either side.

In the second chapel on the right is Niccola Ricciolini's Deposition from the Cross.

Niccola Ricciolini
Deposition

San Biagio della Pagnotta

where: Via Giulia, 64
getting there: a short walk from Piazza Navona/bus #40 or 64 from Termini Station

One of the many churches on Via Giulia is the church of San Biagio della Pagnotta, the national church of Armenia. The church is dedicated to Saint Blaise the Armenian bishop who was martyred in the 4th century and patron saint of throat disease, choking and wool workers. 

The church was first built in the 12th century, in 1730 it was rebuilt and then in 1832 the interior was striped and completely remodeled. 

The church isn't open often but when it is take time to visit the fresco of the Blessed Sacrament Adored by Angels by Pietro da Cortona.

San Giovanni in Laterano

where: Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, 4
getting there: metro linea/A San Giovanni or bus 85 from Piazza Venezia
open: church: daily 7:00-18:30, cliosters: 9:00-18:00, Museum of the Basilica: 10:00-17:30
information: audioguides are available for a small donation and guide books can be bought in the sacristy bookshop.

The Papal Archbasilica of San Giovanni in Laterano was commissioned in the 4th century by Constantine the Great. It was one of the first churches to be built in Rome and is the oldest of all four of the papal basilicas.
In the 5th century it was sacked by the Vandals and then, in 896, an earthquake almost totally destroyed it.
When it was rebuilt, it was to the same dimensions as the original church, several fires over the centuries have also seen the rebuilding of the church.
When the papacy returned from exile in Avignon to Rome in 1377 repairs began on the church, changes to the inside and facade followed in the centuries after.
The interior of the church is immense with patterned marble floors, giant statues of the evangelists and saints, stucco work, and frescoes.
The church also has fragments of a fresco attributed to Giotto and Mosaics from the 12th and 13th century.
Many artists from the 16th and 17th centuries contributed to the basilica's decorations.
Some of the frescoes on the left and right of the transept – telling the story of Constantine and Saint John – are by Cesare Nebbia, Giovanni Guerra, Paris Nogari, Cristoforo Roncalli, Agostino Ciampelli, and Francesco Trevisani.
Above the right transept altar is the Ascension fresco by Giuseppe Cesari, another of his works, the altarpiece painting of the Apostle Saint John in Old Age with his Disciples, can be found in the Massimo Chapel.

Artists in San Giovanni in Laterano

Francesco Trevisani

Cristoforo Roncalli

Giuseppe Cesari Cavaliere d'Arpino

Cesare Nebbia

Giovanni Odazzi

Paris Nogari

Giovanni Baglione

Agostino Ciampelli

Orazio Gentileschi

Andrea Sacchi

Giovanni Guerra

Giuseppe Chiari

Luigi Garzi

Marco Benefial

Cherubino Alberti

Ascension
Giuseppe Cesari

Saint Batholomew

Ciro Ferri

Sant'Agnese in Agone

Ciro Ferri 1634 - 1689

Ciro Ferri was a Baroque painter, sculptor and printmaker. He was born in Rome and began his apprenticeship around 1650 in the studio of Pietro da Cortona, later becoming his main assistant and successor. In 1657 he became a member of the Accadamia di San Luca, the guild for painters, sculptors and architects.

His earliest works were under the direction of Cortona in the Quirinale Palace and in the chapel of the Holy Sacrament in San Marco and Santa Prassede.

In 1659 he began work on the fresco commissions that Cortona was unable to complete in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence.

In 1664 Ferri left Florence for Bergamo to begin fresco work in Santa Maria Maggiore, returning to Rome on the death of Pietro da Cortona in 1669 to complete Cortona's unfinished commissions.

In 1673 he became director of the Florentine students at the Medici Academy in Rome along with sculptor Ercole Ferata, which was established by the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III.

From the 1670s onward he still continued to paint but also directed his energies to sculptural and architectural works.

His finally work on the cupola in Sant'Agnese in Agone was started in 1670 but he died before it was completed and it was finished by his successor Sebastiano Corbellini in 1693.

He died in Rome in 1689.

Ciro Ferri Art in Rome
Santa Maria dell'Orazione e Morte 
altarpiece
Sant'Ambrogio della Massima
St Ambrose Healing the Sick
San Marco
Chiesa Nuova 
bronze highaltar canopy
Sant'Agnese in Agone 
ceiling fresco
Galleria Doria Pamphilj 
Erminia and the Shepards