where: Via Giulia, 59
open: possibly open 7:00-8:00 & 19:00-20:00
Santa Maria del Suffragio is a 17th century Baroque church on the Via Giulia, designed by Carlo Rainaldi and completed in 1669. It belonged to the Confraternita del Suffragio – the fraternity who prayed for souls suffering in purgatory.
The church has a single nave and the interior decorations were completed in 1685.
In the third chapel on the right are Giuseppe Chiari's first known commissions, frescoes of the Birth of the Virgin and Adoration of the Magi in the Marchionni chapel.
The vault decorated with frescoes of Our Lady being crowned Queen of Heaven were by Cesare Mariani and date from 1868.
The church once held frescoes by Giovanni Lanfranco which sadly were removed.
The church once held frescoes by Giovanni Lanfranco which sadly were removed.
Artists in Santa Maria del Suffragio
Cesare Mariani
Nicola Berrettoni
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