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| Church of Saint Marcellus on the Corso(in English) S. Marcelli(in Latin) | |
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| Location | Piazza di San Marcello 5,Rome |
| Country | Italy |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Tradition | Latin Church |
| Religious order | Servite Order |
| History | |
| Status | Titular church General Curia of theOrder of Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Servites) |
| Founded | before 418 AD |
| Dedication | Pope St. Marcellus I |
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| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Jacopo Sansovino,Carlo Fontana |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Baroque |
| Groundbreaking | 1592 |
| Completed | 1697 |
| Clergy | |
| Cardinal protector | Giuseppe Betori |
San Marcello al Corso, is an ancienttitular andconventualchurch inRome,Italy. It has been served byfriars of theServite Order since c. 1375 and is the headquarters of their General Curia. Thecardinal-protector of the church is normally of the order ofcardinal priests, currentlyGiuseppe Betori.
There has been a church dedicated toPope Marcellus I (d. AD 309) on the site since at least the year 418 whenPope Boniface I was reportedly crowned there. It was rebuilt in its present form in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is located near thePiazza Venezia on theVia del Corso, in ancient times calledvia Lata, which now connectsPiazza Venezia toPiazza del Popolo and stands diagonal from the church ofSanta Maria in Via Lata and two doors from theOratory of Santissimo Crocifisso.
While the tradition holds that the church was built over the prison ofPope Marcellus I (d. 309), it is known that theTitulus Marcelli was present no later than 418, whenPope Boniface I was elected there. The "Septiformis"litany, commanded byPope Gregory I in 590, saw the men moving from San Marcello.
Pope Adrian I, in the 8th century, built a church on the same place, which is currently under the modern church. By the 11th century the church wasparochial andcollegiate, being administered by a college of secular priests. The corpse ofCola di Rienzo was held in the church for three days after his execution in 1354. In 1375, Pope Gregory XI suppressed the secular college and gave the church to friars of theOrder of Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Servites) who founded a convent here and continue to manage the church to this day.
On 22 May 1519, a fire destroyed the church. The money collected for its rebuilding was used to bribe thelandsknechts, who were pillaging the city during theSack of Rome (1527). The original plan to rebuild the church was designed byJacopo Sansovino, who fled the city during the Sack and never returned to finish it. The work was continued byAntonio da Sangallo the Younger, who rebuilt the church, but aTiber flood damaged it again in 1530. It was only in 1692–1697 that the church was completed with a facade byCarlo Fontana, commissioned by Monsignor Marcantonio Cataldi Boncompagni.[1] The exterior travertine statues were sculpted byFrancesco Cavallini, and thestuccobas-relief over the entrance, with depictsSan Filippo Benizio, was created byAntonio Raggi. Benizio had been a member of the Servite order.
Under the main altar, decorated with 12th centuryopus sectile, are the relics of several saints, which include those of Pope Marcellus as well asDigna and Emerita. The last chapel on the left is dedicated toSt Philip Benizi. The late-Baroque decoration contains sculptures by Francesco Cavallini and reliefs byErcole Ferrata andAntonio Raggi. The first chapel on the left has the double tomb of CardinalGiovanni Michiel and his grandson Antonio Orso sculpted byJacopo Sansovino.
Behind the facade is aCrucifixion (1613) byGiovanni Battista Ricci. The tomb of Cardinal Cennino was sculpted byGiovanni Francesco de'Rossi (la Vecchietta). Along the right, the first chapel of Marchese Maccarani holds anAnnunciation byLazzaro Baldi; in the secondMartyrdom of Sts. Digna and Emerita (1727) of Pietro Barbieri (architecture by Francesco Ferrari); in the thirdMadonna with the Child, a fresco from the late 14th century, episodes of thelife of the Virgin byFrancesco Salviati, fresco and paintings of Giovan Battista Ricci; in the fourth chapel aCreation of Eve and the evangelists Mark and John, frescoes byPerino del Vaga,Matthew and Luke begun byPerino del Vaga and finished byDaniele da Volterra. Inside is a cyborium (1691) designed byCarlo Bizzaccheri; in the fifth chapel is a monument to theCardinal Fabrizio Paolucci (1726) byPietro Bracci with an altarpiece byAureliano Milani and lateral paintings byDomenico Corvi; and a monument to cardinal Camillo Paolucci byTommaso Righi (1776) and wall paintings byAureliano Milani. On the left nave, in the fifth chapel, is aSan Filippo Benizi (1725) byPier Leone Ghezzi and Gagliardi; in the fourthConversion of Saint Paul (1560) byFederico Zuccari and his brother Taddeo and, on the sides, ofHistory of Saint Paul. Inside of the chapel has busts of Muzio, Roberto, Lelio Frangipane byAlessandro Algardi (1630–40). In the third chapel on the left is a Madonna Addolorata byPietro Paolo Naldini, crowned by the Vatican Chapter in 1695.Sacrifice of Isaac anddiscovery of Moses byDomenico Corvi; in the first,Madonna and seven Saints byAgostino Masucci.
The church is administered and owned by theServite Order since 1369.
Fillipo Titi.
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