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San Lorenzo in Lucina

The Minor Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina (Italian: Basilica Minore di San Lorenzo in Lucina or simply Italian: San Lorenzo in Lucina; Latin: S. Laurentii in Lucina) is a Roman Catholic parish, titular church, and minor basilica in central Rome, Italy. The basilica is located in Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina in the Rione Colonna, about two blocks behind the Palazzo Montecitorio, proximate to the Via del Corso.

Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina

AD 4th century

65 metres (213 ft)

16 metres (52 ft)

18 metres (59 ft)

History[edit]

The basilica is dedicated to St. Lawrence of Rome, deacon and martyr. The name "Lucina" derives from that of the Roman matron of the AD 4th century who permitted Christians to erect a church on the site. Pope Marcellus I supposedly hid on the site during the persecutions of Roman Emperor Maxentius, and Pope Damasus I was elected there in AD 366. Pope Sixtus III consecrated a church on the site in 440 AD. The church was denominated the Titulus Lucinae, and is so mentioned in the acts of the synod of AD 499 of Pope Symmachus. The church was first reconstructed by Pope Paschal II in the early 12th century.


The church was consecrated by Pope Celestine III on 26 May 1196.[1]


In 1606 Pope Paul V assigned the basilica to the order of Clerics Regular Minor. Cosimo Fanzago completely renovated the interior in the 17th century, including conversion of the side aisles of the basilica into chapels. The ceiling was also frescoed by the Neapolitan Mometto Greuter.


In the 19th century, in a subsequent restoration of the interior commissioned by Pope Pius IX, the Baroque decoration of the nave was replaced with frescoes painted by Roberto Bompiani.


The current Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Laurentii in Lucina,[2] established in AD 684, is Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, who was appointed on 20 November 2010.

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Pompeo Batoni

Josef Mysliveček

Bernardo Pasquini

Nicolas Poussin

Charles Stewart

Francesco Gonzaga (1538-1566)

Filippo Calandrini

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Anthony Morris Clark (1981). . Decatur House Press, Limited. ISBN 978-0-916276-10-2.

Studies in Roman Eighteenth-Century Painting

Luigi Salerno, S. Lorenzo in Lucina in Via del Corso (Roma 1961).

M. E Bertoldi, "L'area archeologica di San Lorenzo in Lucina a Roma", Bollettino di archeologia, 13–15, 1992, 127–134.

M. E. Bertoldi, S. Lorenzo in Lucina (Le chiese di Roma illustrate. Nuova serie 28), Roma 1994.

Olof Brandt, "Sul battistero paleocristiano di S. Lorenzo in Lucina", Archeologia laziale XII (Quaderni di archeologia etrusco-italica 23), 1, Roma 1995, 145–150.

Olof Brandt, "La seconda campagna di scavo nel battistero di S. Lorenzo in Lucina a Roma. Rapporto preliminare", Opuscula Romana 20, 1996, 271-274.

Olof Brandt, "Un'iscrizione riutilizzata da S. Lorenzo in Lucina", Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 70, 1994, 197–201.

F. Bertozzi, "S. Lorenzo in Lucina," Roma Sacra 2, 1995, pp. 6-17.

G. De Spirito, "Basilica S. Laurentii in Lucina", III, Roma 1996, 183–185.

Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae

M. E. Bertoldi, "Un documento di archivio sul battistero di S. Lorenzo in Lucina", Ultra terminum vagari. Scritti in onore di Carl Nylander a cura di Börje Magnusson et al., Roma 1997, 43–44.

Wanda Tymowska; Alain Mérot; Daniela Gallo (2002). . Paris: Mémoire de DEA : Histoire de l'art : Paris 4.

Marco Benefial: état de la question

Olof Brandt (ed.), "San Lorenzo in Lucina: The Transformations of a Roman Quarter." [Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen / Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae. 4°, 61.] Stockholm Rome 2012,  9789170421792.

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Official website of the Vicariate of Rome

http://spazioinwind.libero.it/lucina

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