- San Lorenzo in Damaso
San Lorenzo in Damaso ("Saint Lawrence in the House of Damasus") is a
basilica church inRome , one of several dedicated to the Roman deacon and martyrSaint Lawrence . Known since antiquity (synod ofPope Symmachus ,499 ) as "Titulus Damasi", according to tradition San Lorenzo in Damaso was built byPope Damasus I in his own house, in the380s .Donato Bramante rebuilt the church in the 15th century, by order of CardinalRaffaele Riario , within the restoration works of the close byPalazzo della Cancelleria . The last restoration was necessary after a fire that damaged the basilica in1944 .The first chapel to the right houses a "Virgin with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicolò" by
Sebastiano Conca , while the ceiling is frescoed with "Eternity appears to San Nicola" byCorrado Giaquinto . The first chapel to the left has a "Last Supper" byVincenzo Berrettini .In the first nave to the left, are statues of Saints Francesco Saverio and Carlo Borromeo by
Stefano Maderno . On the right nave, there is a monument to "Gabriella di Savoia Massimo" byPietro Tenerani . The presbitery, modified byBernini , is the altarpiece of "Saints and Coronation of Mary" byFederico Zuccari . In the nave to the left of the presbitery, is the chapel of the "SS.Concezione" completed and frescoed (1635-38) byPietro da Cortona . Other works include the monument of Cardinal Trevisan (1505), the "Madonna delle Gioie", attributed toNicolò Circignani , and the monument of Annibal Caro (1566), byGiovanni Antonio Dosio .The
Cardinal Priest of the "Titulus S. Laurentii in Damaso" isAntonio Rouco Varela , Archbishop ofMadrid .References
* [http://roma.katolsk.no/lorenzodamaso.htm "San Lorenzo in Damaso"] , by Chris Nyborg.
*Pietro da Cortona , " [http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/egallery/object.asp?maker=DACORTONAP&object=904448&row=1&detail=about A Design for a]Quarantore at San Lorenzo in Damaso", c.1632
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