Basilica di Sant'Apollinare

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Basilica di Sant'Apollinare - abcRoma.com

Basilica di Sant'Apollinare
Type: basiliche
Date: 1741 / 1748
Period: Settecento (Had been fully expressed in Bernini, Borromini’s works. Ferdinando Fuga expressed a neoclassic influence (Facciata di Santa Maria Maggiore))

Address: Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 49
(Centro Storico)
Zone: Rione V Ponte

Phone: 066875211
The published information is subject to change, so we suggest you telephone to confirm.

Location and History

Description

Realization by

Ferdinando Fuga
(Architetto)
ricostruì la chiesa nel XVIII secolo su commissione di papa Benedetto XIV su una precedente chiesa sorta, nel Medioevo, sul luogo in cui si svolgevano i giochi apollinari

Commissioned by

Prospero Lambertini said Pope Benedetto XIV
(Pontefice)
nel 1741 commissionò i lavori di ricostruzione della chiesa a Ferdinando Fuga

Artists and works

Stefano Pozzi (Pittore) con la decorazione ad affresco "Gloria di sant'Apollinare" databile nel periodo 1748 - 1768 che raffigura sulla volta della navata la Gloria di Sant’Apollinare.

Ludovico Mazzanti (Pittore) con l' affresco "Incoronazione di Maria Vergine".

Other:

Bernardino Ludovisi (Scultore), Carlo Marchionni (Scultore), Ercole Graziani (Pittore), Francesco Guidotti (Scultore), Pierre Legros (Scultore), Placido Costanzi (Pittore)

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