Italy, Rome, Santa Maria in Trastevere 340 - 18th cent. - A History of Romanesque Architecture 300 - 1300 (sitios de interés)
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This marker is part of an illustrated Survey of Romanesque Architecture, 300 to 1300 AD. To see and read all comments you have to download the post to your hard disk.Italy, Rome, Santa Maria in Trastevere 340 - 18th cent.
The problem with the churches of Rome is that almost nothing remains of the earliest architecture. They have been rebuilt many times.
The basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the oldest churches in Rome, perhaps the first in which mass was openly celebrated. The basic floor plan and wall structure of the church date back to the 340s. A Christian house-church was founded here about 220 by Pope St. Callixtus I (217-222) whose remains are preserved under the altar. It underwent two restorations in the fifth and eighth centuries. In 1140-43 the church was re-erected on its old foundations under Innocent II. Inside the church are a number of late 13th-century mosaics by Pietro Cavallini on the subject of the Life of the Virgin (1291). Reworked many times, the façade of the church was restored by Carlo Fontana in 1702,
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