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Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo

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Location
  
Rome, Italy

Rite
  
Latin Rite

Architectural style
  
Baroque

Year consecrated
  
1745

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Groundbreaking
  
1742

Province
  
Rome

Architect
  
Pietro Passalacqua

Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo

Address
  
Lungotevere Vaticano, 1, 00193 Roma, Italy

Similar
  
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Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo, popularly known as Nunziatina (or Annunziatina), is an oratory of Rome (Italy), in the rione Borgo, facing on Lungotevere Vaticano.

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History

The church was built along Borgo Santo Spirito, between 1742 and 1745 by architect Pietro Passalacqua, as an oratory for the Brotherhood of the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia. In 1940, due to the opening of Via della Conciliazione, the oratory was dismantled and re-built ten years later in the present location facing the Tiber.

Description

The façade is one of the most refined examples of the 18th-century style in Rome.

The interior has a single nave with plaster decorations. It houses works of art formerly in the Church of Sant'Angelo ai Corridori, liying along Borgo Sant'Angelo, destroyed in the 1930s and no more rebuilt: among them, a fresco portraying the Virgin of the Milk with the Child, attributed to Antoniazzo Romano, and a lunette with the Apparition of St. Michael Archangel to Pope Gregory the Great.

References

Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo Wikipedia


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