CICLES OF PAINTINGS OF CHRISTIAN ROME

If we put in the center the church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, within 200 meters we find the church of Jesus, Santa Maria in Vallicella, and St. Ignatius, four churches that exhibit the great cycles of paintings of Christian Rome, where the painting is transformed into architectural forms that enhance the spirituality itself of the place.

This unity of expression called one interpreter for each church, with the exception of Sant'Andrea della Valle, which had two.

The great performers were:

Domenichino (1581 - 1641), and Giovanni Lanfranco (1582 - 1647), in Sant’Andrea della Valle;

Pietro da Cortona (1596 – 1669), in Santa Maria in Vallicella, known by the Romans as the New Church;

Baciccia (1639 -1709), in the Jesus, the mother church of the Jesuits;

Andrea Pozzo (1642 – 1709), in St. Ignatius.

Domenichino	Giovanni Lanfranco	Pietro da Cortona	Baciccia	Andrea Pozzo

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