Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo
Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo, popularly known as Nunziatina (or Annunziatina), is an oratory of Rome (Italy), in the rione Borgo, facing on Lungotevere Vaticano.
| Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo | |
|---|---|
 Façade of the Church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo | |
| Religion | |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Province | Rome |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Year consecrated | 1745 |
| Location | |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Geographic coordinates | 41°54′06.69″N 12°27′48.98″E |
| Architecture | |
| Architect(s) | Pietro Passalacqua |
| Style | Baroque |
| Groundbreaking | 1742 |
History
The church was built along Borgo Santo Spirito, between 1742 and 1745 by architect Pietro Passalacqua, as an oratory for the Brotherhood of the Ospedale di Santo Spirito in Sassia. In 1940, due to the opening of Via della Conciliazione, the oratory was dismantled and re-built ten years later in the present location facing the Tiber.
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Description
The façade is one of the most refined examples of the 18th-century style in Rome.
The interior has a single nave with plaster decorations. It houses works of art formerly in the Church of Sant'Angelo ai Corridori, lying along Borgo Sant'Angelo, destroyed in the 1930s and no more rebuilt: among them, a fresco portraying the Virgin of the Milk with the Child, attributed to Antoniazzo Romano, and a lunette with the Apparition of St. Michael Archangel to Pope Gregory the Great.
Sources
- Mariano Armellini, Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Rome 1891, p. 773
- C. Rendina, Le Chiese di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Milan 2000, p. 35-36
- C. Villa, Rione XIV Borgo, in AA.VV, I rioni di Roma, Newton & Compton Editori, Milan 2000, Vol. III, pp. 924–967