Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Palazzo Altemps; Chapel of Saint Anicetus and the Blessed Virgin of Clemency

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Palazzo Altemps; Chapel of Saint Anicetus and the Blessed Virgin of Clemency
Alternate Title: 
Martyrdom of Pope Anicetus
Image View: 
Detail, wall fresco of the Martyrdom of Pope Anicetus
Creator: 
Antonio Circignani (Italian painter, ca. 1567-1629)
Location: 
repository: Palazzo Altemps (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
Location Note: 
Piazza di Sant'Apollinare, 46; church entrance is at Via della Maschera d'Oro 8
GPS: 
+41.901172+12.473059
Date: 
frescoes, 1619-1622 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
Italian
Style Period: 
Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style)
Work Type 1: 
fresco (painting)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
pigment on plaster (fresco)
Technique: 
fresco painting (technique)
Subjects: 
New Testament; saints; Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Popes
Description: 
A 17th century private chapel in the Palazzo Altemps. All the palazzi in Rome at the time would have had at least one private chapel. The one in the Palazzo Altemps is singular in that it contains the shrine of a saint, Pope St. Anicetus. This gave it the status of a church, and the liturgy was celebrated publicly there on the saint's former feast day of April 17th. In 1604, Pope Clement VIII gave Giovanni Angelo Altemps the alleged relics of the pope. The wall frescoes and the frieze of putti were executed by Antonio Circignani (Il Pomarancio), but the vaults and ceiling are probably by Polidoro Mariottini. (Source: Churches of Rome Wiki [website]; http://romanchurches.wikia.com/)
Image Description: 
Pope Anicetus was actually not martyred, this was Altemps propaganda to make the relics more valuable. The Catholic Church revised the Roman martyrology in 2001 to correct this.
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-POMARAN-SAPA-A04
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.