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The facade was built under the direction of Cesare Corvara († 1703) with the collaboration of other architects. It consists of two sections, with the upper section standing back. The lower part is marked with four pilasters and two columns, all with Ionic order, Ionic Capital (architecture), capitals with in the middle of each capital a small head of a deer. The spirals of the volutes are connected by a small laurel wreath. On the right side of the facade a plaque was placed in memory of the flood of the Tiber River in 1495, whose waters reached up to the basilica.
The top section is divided by four pilasters with on each side a large volute. In the middle is a large window with an arcuated cornice, flanked on each side by a niche adorned with shells. On top is a triangular pediment with in its middle a Oculus (architecture), circular window surrounded with palm branches and surmounted by a crown. On top of the pediment stands a deer head with a cross between the antlers (done by the sculptor Paolo Morelli († 1719), in reference to the legend of Saint Eustace.
An iron gate, made by Gian Battista Contini, closes off the porch.
The square Romanesque architecture, Romanesque campanile is situated on the back of the church at its left side. Construction was started in 1196 under the pontificate of Pope Celestine III. The top part can be dated back to the end of the 12th century, while the base is somewhat older and can be dated at ca. 1090.
The rib vault is stuccoed with flowers and leaves. The crossing is covered with a dome with a representation of the Holy Spirit in its middle.
The main altar was commissioned by Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, Neri Corsini and designed by the architect Nicola Salvi. He made it into an elegant and refined synthesis of marble and gilded metal. The top of the altar rests on an urn in Porphyry (geology), porphyry rosso antico, the costly stone of the ancients, that contains the putative relics of Saint Eustace. The altarpiece was painted in 1727 by Francesco Ferdinandi (1679–1740), also named "l'Imperiali". It represents the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and his family who were roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118. The gilded wooden baldachin (circa 1746) over the main altar is attributed to Ferdinando Fuga (1699–1781).
The rear of the church is almost completely covered with the organ, made by Johann Conrad Werle in 1767. The gilded balustrade and the wooden front of the organ were executed in Rococo style by Bernardino Mammucari, Francesco Michetti and Carlo Pacilli. Above the organ stands a glass window representing "the Mary Magdalene, Penitent Magdalene", realized in the last decade of the 19th century by Gabriel and Louis Gesta di Tolosa.
The pulpit was executed in polychrome marble and dates from 1937.
* The Chapel of the Holy Family dates from 1854. The altarpiece by Pietro Gagliardi (1809–1890) represent the Holy Family in Jerusalem. On the right wall is a white marble funeral monument with the bust of Luigi Greppi († 1673), an illustrious member of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament. On the left side of the altar stands a small statue of Saint Raymond Nonnatus, who, according to his hagiography, was nominated Cardinal-Deacon of Sant' Eustachio by pope Gregory IX in 1239, but died en route to Rome.
* The Chapel of the Annunciation : its decoration was finished in 1874. Above the 17th-century altar stand two columns of coralline breccia that support a broken pediment with a bass-relief in stucco representing the Virgin and Child. The altarpiece by Ottavio Leoni (or Lioni) (1578–1630) represents the Annunciation.
* The Chapel of the Sacred Heart was restored between 1934 and 1937 by Corrado Mezzana (1890–1952), who also added the altarpiece representing the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the left wall, the painting "The Last Supper" and on the right wall the painting "Christ on the Cross and Saint Longinus piercing his Heart".
* The right transept contains the paintings made by Jacopo Zoboli (1682–1751) in 1737. On the left wall hangs the large painting of "Saint Jerome" and in front "The meeting between the Holy Virgin and Elisabeth". The large wooden confessionals were made by Corrado Mezzana.
* Baptistery lies next to the entrance of the church. The glass window represents "The Baptism of Jesus". The baptismal font dates from the 16th century.
* The Chapel of Saint Julian the Hospitaller was renovated from 1706. The altarpiece by Biagio Puccini (1675–1721) shows the saint curing a leper and welcoming an old pilgrim. The fresco on the ceiling represents "The Eternal Father"
* The Chapel of the Archangel Michael is the largest chapel of this church. It was finished between 1716 and 1719 by Alessandro Speroni. The altarpiece by Giovanni Bigatti (1774–1817) is a dramatic rendering of the ''Archangel Michael triumphing over Satan''. Next to the altar hang two paintings : ''St Raymond Nonnatus'' and ''St Frances of Rome''. On the left wall is the funeral monument of Teresa Tognoli Canale (1807) and on the right wall the funeral monument by Lorenzo Ottoni (1658–1736) of Silvio Cavalleri († 1717), private secretary to the popes Pope Innocent XII, Innocent XII and Pope Clement XI, Clement XI.
* The Chapel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was renovated from 1771 on by the architect Melchiorre Passalacqua and around 1800 by the sculptor Agostino Penna. Next to the altar stand two marble columns in Verd antique, "verde antico" that support a Tympanum (architecture), tympanum with two angels in stucco. The oval painting of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a copy made in 1848 from the original painting by Giovanni Battista Casanova. On the left wall hangs a painting by Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1774) representing "The Flight to Egypt". The painting on the right is "The Holy Family" (1774) by Tommaso Conca († 1815). The fresco on the ceiling renders "The Annunciation".
* The left transept contains the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (second half of the 20th century).
* The Chapel of the Crucifix contains the tomb of don Pirro Scavizzi (1884–1964), the parish priest of this church between 1919 and 1932, whose beatification is under consideration.
titular church
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and minor basilica
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in Rome, named for the martyr Saint Eustace
Saint Eustace (Latinized Eustachius or Eustathius, Greek Εὐστάθιος Πλακίδας ''Eustathios Plakidas'') is revered as a Christian martyr.
According to legend, he was martyred in AD 118, at the command of emperor Hadrian.
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. It is located on Via di Sant'Eustachio in the rione Sant'Eustachio, a block west of the Pantheon
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and via della Rotonda, and a block east of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (''lit.'' 'Saint Ivo at the Sapienza (University of Rome)') is a Roman Catholic church in Rome. Built in 1642–1660 by the architect Francesco Borromini, the church is widely regarded a masterpiece of Roman Baroque archite ...
and the Via della Dogana Vecchia.
History
A church at the site was founded by the 8th century. The church was recorded as a ''diaconia'' (a centre for helping the poor and the sick) at the end of the pontificate ofPope Gregory II
Pope Gregory II ( la, Gregorius II; 669 – 11 February 731) was the bishop of Rome from 19 May 715 to his death.
(715-731). It is mentioned in some documents dating from the 10th and 11th centuries, where this church is called ''in platana'' (between the plane trees
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) referring to the tree planted in the garden of the martyr Eustace. However, tradition holds that the emperor Constantine I
Constantine I ( , ; la, Flavius Valerius Constantinus, ; ; 27 February 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337, the first one to Constantine the Great and Christianity, convert to Christiani ...
had previously built an oratory (worship), oratory here. This church was called "ad Pantheon in regione nona e iuxta templum Agrippae" (at the Pantheon in the ninth ''rione'' and next to the temple of Agrippa").
The church was restored and had a new campanile added at the end of the 12th century during the pontificate of Celestine III (1191–1198), who also deposited the putative relics of Eustace and his family in the church. In the 16th century, it was a favored praying-place for St Philip Neri. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was almost completely rebuilt, with only the campanile remaining from the old structure. The new design, in the Roman Italian Baroque architecture, Baroque style, was produced by several architects : Cesare Corvara and Giovanni Battista Contini (1641–1723), who added chapels and the portico, Antonio Canevari (1681–1750), Nicola Salvi (1697–1751) and finally, from 1728, Giovanni Domenico Navone. The new high altar, in bronze and polychrome marble, was added by Nicola Salvi in 1739 and in 1749 Ferdinando Fuga put a baldachin over it. The choir and the sacristy were designed by Canevari and built by Giovanni Moscati.
The church was elevated to minor basilica
In the Catholic Church, a basilica is a designation given by the Pope to a church building. Basilicas are distinguished for ceremonial purposes from other churches. The building need not be a basilica in the architectural sense (a rectangular ...
status in 1918.
Facade
The facade was built under the direction of Cesare Corvara († 1703) with the collaboration of other architects. It consists of two sections, with the upper section standing back. The lower part is marked with four pilasters and two columns, all with Ionic order, Ionic Capital (architecture), capitals with in the middle of each capital a small head of a deer. The spirals of the volutes are connected by a small laurel wreath. On the right side of the facade a plaque was placed in memory of the flood of the Tiber River in 1495, whose waters reached up to the basilica.
The top section is divided by four pilasters with on each side a large volute. In the middle is a large window with an arcuated cornice, flanked on each side by a niche adorned with shells. On top is a triangular pediment with in its middle a Oculus (architecture), circular window surrounded with palm branches and surmounted by a crown. On top of the pediment stands a deer head with a cross between the antlers (done by the sculptor Paolo Morelli († 1719), in reference to the legend of Saint Eustace.
An iron gate, made by Gian Battista Contini, closes off the porch.
The square Romanesque architecture, Romanesque campanile is situated on the back of the church at its left side. Construction was started in 1196 under the pontificate of Pope Celestine III. The top part can be dated back to the end of the 12th century, while the base is somewhat older and can be dated at ca. 1090.
Interior
The interior has a Cathedral diagram, cruciform architectural plan and consists of a single nave. Its construction was carried out in mature Baroque architecture, Baroque style under the supervision of the architects Cesare Corvara and Antonio Canevari. The nave is marked on each side by three pilasters resting on a broad base. The pilasters are decked with Fluting (architecture), fluted white marble and surmounted by Capital (architecture), composite capitals.
The rib vault is stuccoed with flowers and leaves. The crossing is covered with a dome with a representation of the Holy Spirit in its middle.
The main altar was commissioned by Cardinal Neri Maria Corsini, Neri Corsini and designed by the architect Nicola Salvi. He made it into an elegant and refined synthesis of marble and gilded metal. The top of the altar rests on an urn in Porphyry (geology), porphyry rosso antico, the costly stone of the ancients, that contains the putative relics of Saint Eustace. The altarpiece was painted in 1727 by Francesco Ferdinandi (1679–1740), also named "l'Imperiali". It represents the martyrdom of Saint Eustace and his family who were roasted to death inside a bronze statue of a bull or an ox, in the year AD 118. The gilded wooden baldachin (circa 1746) over the main altar is attributed to Ferdinando Fuga (1699–1781).
The rear of the church is almost completely covered with the organ, made by Johann Conrad Werle in 1767. The gilded balustrade and the wooden front of the organ were executed in Rococo style by Bernardino Mammucari, Francesco Michetti and Carlo Pacilli. Above the organ stands a glass window representing "the Mary Magdalene, Penitent Magdalene", realized in the last decade of the 19th century by Gabriel and Louis Gesta di Tolosa.
The pulpit was executed in polychrome marble and dates from 1937.
Right side
* The Chapel of the Holy Family dates from 1854. The altarpiece by Pietro Gagliardi (1809–1890) represent the Holy Family in Jerusalem. On the right wall is a white marble funeral monument with the bust of Luigi Greppi († 1673), an illustrious member of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament. On the left side of the altar stands a small statue of Saint Raymond Nonnatus, who, according to his hagiography, was nominated Cardinal-Deacon of Sant' Eustachio by pope Gregory IX in 1239, but died en route to Rome.
* The Chapel of the Annunciation : its decoration was finished in 1874. Above the 17th-century altar stand two columns of coralline breccia that support a broken pediment with a bass-relief in stucco representing the Virgin and Child. The altarpiece by Ottavio Leoni (or Lioni) (1578–1630) represents the Annunciation.
* The Chapel of the Sacred Heart was restored between 1934 and 1937 by Corrado Mezzana (1890–1952), who also added the altarpiece representing the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the left wall, the painting "The Last Supper" and on the right wall the painting "Christ on the Cross and Saint Longinus piercing his Heart".
* The right transept contains the paintings made by Jacopo Zoboli (1682–1751) in 1737. On the left wall hangs the large painting of "Saint Jerome" and in front "The meeting between the Holy Virgin and Elisabeth". The large wooden confessionals were made by Corrado Mezzana.
Left side
* Baptistery lies next to the entrance of the church. The glass window represents "The Baptism of Jesus". The baptismal font dates from the 16th century.
* The Chapel of Saint Julian the Hospitaller was renovated from 1706. The altarpiece by Biagio Puccini (1675–1721) shows the saint curing a leper and welcoming an old pilgrim. The fresco on the ceiling represents "The Eternal Father"
* The Chapel of the Archangel Michael is the largest chapel of this church. It was finished between 1716 and 1719 by Alessandro Speroni. The altarpiece by Giovanni Bigatti (1774–1817) is a dramatic rendering of the ''Archangel Michael triumphing over Satan''. Next to the altar hang two paintings : ''St Raymond Nonnatus'' and ''St Frances of Rome''. On the left wall is the funeral monument of Teresa Tognoli Canale (1807) and on the right wall the funeral monument by Lorenzo Ottoni (1658–1736) of Silvio Cavalleri († 1717), private secretary to the popes Pope Innocent XII, Innocent XII and Pope Clement XI, Clement XI.
* The Chapel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was renovated from 1771 on by the architect Melchiorre Passalacqua and around 1800 by the sculptor Agostino Penna. Next to the altar stand two marble columns in Verd antique, "verde antico" that support a Tympanum (architecture), tympanum with two angels in stucco. The oval painting of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is a copy made in 1848 from the original painting by Giovanni Battista Casanova. On the left wall hangs a painting by Étienne de La Vallée Poussin (1774) representing "The Flight to Egypt". The painting on the right is "The Holy Family" (1774) by Tommaso Conca († 1815). The fresco on the ceiling renders "The Annunciation".
* The left transept contains the statue of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (second half of the 20th century).
* The Chapel of the Crucifix contains the tomb of don Pirro Scavizzi (1884–1964), the parish priest of this church between 1919 and 1932, whose beatification is under consideration.
List of titulars (cardinal deacons)
The following were Cardinal Deacons of S. Eustachio: * ? Gregorio (1088–1099) * Gregorio, Order of Saint Benedict, OSB (←1118–1137) * ? Gaymer (1130- prima del 1134) * ? Stefano (circa 1134-?) * Vassalo (1134–1142) * Astaldo degli Astalli (1143–1151) * Ildebrando Grassi, Canonico Regolare (1152–1157) * Guido di Crema (1155 o 1157–1158) * Pietro di Miso (1158-1165?) * Ugo Ricasoli (1163?- circa 1182) * Stefano (1172–1173), pseudocardinal (Catholicism), pseudocardinal of Antipope Antipope Callixtus III, Callixtus III * Gianfelice (1188–1189) * Pope Gregory IX, Ugolino dei Conti di Segni (1198–1206) * Aldobrandino Gaetani (o Ildebrando) (1216–1219) * Pope Alexander IV, Rinaldo dei Signori di Ienne (1227–1234) * Robert Somercote (1231 or 1239–1251) * ''The claim that Raymond Nonnatus, Ramón Nonnato held this titular church ca. 1240 has been disproved.''Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani, ''Cardinali di Curia e "familae" cardinalizia dal 1227 al 1254'' II (Padova 1972), pp. 534-535. * Guglielmo Fieschi (1244–1256) * Uberto Coconati (1261–1276) * Giordano Orsini (died 1287), Giordano Orsini (1278–1287) * Pietro Colonna (cardinal), Pietro Colonna (1288–1297) * Riccardo Petroni (1298–1314) * Arnaud de Via (1317–1335), nephew of Pope John XXII * Giovanni Visconti (1329), pseudocardinal of Antipope Nicholas V * Bernard de la Tour (1342–1361) * Pierre Flandrin (1371–1381) * Francesco Renzio (1381–1390) * Antipope John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa (1402–1410) * Alfonso Carrillo de Albornoz (1408–1418), pseudocardinal of Antipope Benedict XIII (1419–1423) * Giacomo Isolani (1413–1417), pseudocardinal of Antipope John XXIII (1417-1420?) * Vacant (1423–1439) * Alberto Alberti (1439–1445) * Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña (or Acuña de Carrillo) (1440), pseudocardinal of Antipope Felix V, declined the appointment * Giacomo del Portogallo (1456–1459) * Pope Pius III, Francesco Nanni-Todeschini-Piccolomini (1460–1503) * Pope Paul III, Alessandro Farnese (1503–1519); in commendam (1519–1534) * Paolo Emilio Cesi (1534–1537) * Agostino Trivulzio (1537) * Cristoforo Giacobazzi (1537–1540) * Guidascanio Sforza (1540–1552) * Niccolò Caetani (1552–1585) * Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando de' Medici (1585–1587) * Filippo Guastavillani (1587) * Alessandro Damasceni Peretti (1587–1589) * Giorlamo Mattei (1589–1592) * Guido Pepoli (1592–1595) * Odoardo Farnese (1595–1617) * Andrea Baroni Peretti Montalto (1617–1621) * Alessandro d'Este (1621) * Maurizio di Savoia (1621–1626) * Francesco Boncompagni (1626–1634) * Ippolito Aldobrandini iuniore (1634–1637) * Alessandro Cesarini (iuniore) (1638–1644) * Marzio Ginetti (1644) * Carlo de' Medici (1644) * Girolamo Colonna (1644–1652) * Giangiacomo Teodoro Trivulzio (1652–1653) * Virginio Orsini (1653–1656) * Vincenzo Costaguti (1656–1660) * Lorenzo Raggi (1660–1664) * Carlo Pio di Savoia the younger (1664–1667) * Friedrich Landgraf von Hessen-Darmstadt (1667–1668) * Decio Azzolino iuniore (1668–1681) * Felice Rospigliosi (1682–1685) * Domenico Maria Corsi (1686–1696) * Vincenzo Grimani (1698–1710) * Annibale Albani (1712–1716) * Curzio Origo (1716–1726); titolo pro illa vice (1726–1737) * Neri Maria Corsini (1737–1770) * Giovanni Costanzio Caracciolo (1770–1780) * Pasquale Acquaviva d'Aragona (1780–1788) * Vincenzo Maria Altieri (1788–1794) * Filippo Carandini (1794–1810) * Vacant (1810–1816) * Alessandro Lante Montefeltro Della Rovere (1816–1818) * Giuseppe Albani (1818–1828) * Vacant (1828–1832) * Luigi Gazzoli (1832–1857) * Teodolfo Mertel (1858–1881) * Angelo Jacobini (1882–1886) * Luigi Trombetta (1899–1900) * Vacant (1900–1914) * Michele Lega (1914–1924); titolo pro illa vice (1924–1926) * Carlo Perosi (1926–1930) * Vacant (1930–1946) * Giuseppe Bruno (cardinal), Giuseppe Bruno (1946–1954) * Vacant (1954–1958) * Fernando Cento, titolo pro illa vice (1958–1965) * Francis John Brennan (1967–1968) * Giacomo Violardo (1969–1978) * Vacant (1978–1991) * Guido Del Mestri (1991–1993) * Vacant (1993–2001) * Sergio Sebastiani (2001- )Notes
Sources
* Richard Krautheimer, ''Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome (IV-IX Cent.)'' (Roma: Pontificio istituto di archeologia cristiana, 1937), pp. 213–218. * Antonio Menegaldo & Vincenzo Francia, ''Basilica di Sant' Eustachio in Campo Marzio'' (in Italian) - booklet on sale in the church * Carla Appetiti, ''S. Eustachio'' (Roma: Edizioni "Roma", 1964). * Pasquale Adinolfi, ''Rione Campo Marzo, Rione S. Eustachio'' (Firenze: Le Lettere, 1983) [Roma nell'età di mezzo / Pasquale Adinolfi, 4].External links
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