Saint-Andrew Church of Quirinal

Saint-Andrew of Quirinal (in Italian Sant' Andrea Al Quirinale ) is the church Séminaire Jésuite on the hill of the Quirinal to Rome.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini draws of them the plans and Of Rossi carries out of it the construction which extends over one twenty years period between 1658 and 1678. The site was occupied before by a church of the 16th century. The new building is ordered by the pope Alexandre VII and the cardinal Camillo Pamphilj. He is generally regarded as one of the chiefs of works of the Italian Baroque architecture and Bernin itself saw it like its only perfect architectural work.

The plan is elliptic, the entry and the high altar being placed in the shortest axis of the ellipse. The gate of entry, semicircular projection on the frontage, carries the weapons of Camillo Pamphilj which had advanced the funds for its construction.

One owes interior decoration, in Stuc S with Antonio Raggi and his pupils, on the drawings of Bernin. The Martyre of saint André by Ambrogio Borgognone is placed at the top of the high altar. The side chapels shelter fabrics of Baciccio.

Charles-Emmanuel IV of Sardinia is buried in one of the side chapels, just as holy Stanislas Kostka. Currently, the Titulus S. Andreae in Quirinali , priest-cardinal of the church, is occupied by the cardinal Adam Kozlowiecki.

References

Federico Gizzi, the chiese barocche di Roma , Compton Newton, 1994.

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