San Pantaleo is an ancient church located on a piazza of the same name along Corso Vittorio Emanuele II in the Parione neighborhood of

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, Italy. It shares the Piazza with the Museo di Roma in

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. A church at the site dates from the 12th-century, but the present facade (1807) is in a Neoclassical style and the interiors were elaborated in a

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style.

Names

Different sources name the church by various titles, including: *San Pantaleo de Preta Caroli or San Pantaleonis de Pretecarolis *San Pantaleo a Pasquino *San Pantaleo de Muti *San Pantaleonis de Parione or in Navona *San Pantaleone alle Scuole Pie If this were not enough source of confusion, there existed a church in the Rione Monti on the

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, which has been referred to as ''San Pantaleone alli Pantani'' or ''San Pantaleone in Sebucca'' (perhaps intending ''in Suburra'') or San pantaleonis Trium Clibanorum or Trium Fornorum.

History

Records claim the church at the site was founded by the early 12th century, other records note founding by

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in 1216. In 1418, the church was rebuilt by Alessandro Savelli, who had an adjacent palace. Some notes indicate it was linked to a group of English priests. By 1621, it was restored by the fathers of the Scuole Pie (

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) of St

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, who lived in the adjacent convent. His room is preserved. His relics are held in a porphyry urn in the church. In 1808, under the patronage of Duke Giovanni Torlonia, a facade was commissioned from the architect Giuseppe Valadier. The significance of the facade frieze not evident; it depicts a cornucopia Christian symbols, scrolls, books, and shields resembling a display of a triumphal procession. Among the artworks in the interior nave and two chapels are: *''Triumph of the Name of Mary'', ceiling fresco by

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*''Death of St Joseph'' (1690) attributed to

Sebastiano Ricci Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesq ...

*''Santi Giusto e Pastore'', sacristy paintings by Pomarancio *Tomb of Laudomia, daughter of Giovanni Brancaleone *Other sources mention main altarpiece by Mattia Preti and paintings by

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Francesco Posterla.

References

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