Santa Chiara, Rome

Santa Chiara, Rome

Santa Chiara is a church in the Campus Martius area of Rome dedicated to St Clare of Assisi. It was founded by St Charles Borromeus, who built a Franciscan convent (now used by the Pontifical French Seminary) and the church within the ruins of the Baths of Agrippa in 1592. It was restored in 1627, but at some later point the roof collapsed and it was abandoned.

In 1883, the Congregation of the Holy Spirit acquired the property, and rebuilt the church, giving it a new facade designed by Luca Carimini in 1888. On the lower of the two levels, the main door is framed by two columns holding a semicircular tympanum with a decorated lunette. To the sides are niches with triangular tympanums, surmounted by circular windows. On the upper level there are windows surmounted by busts of saints. The triangular tympanum crowning the façade has a relief by Domenico Bartolini.

The church is still served by the Congregration of the Holy Spirit. The high altar has an altarpiece depicting the Holy Family, by Virginio Monti.

External links

* [http://roma.katolsk.no/chiara.htm Nyborg]


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