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Santa Cecilia in Trastevere


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Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere

The church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere was built by Pope Paschal I (r. 817-24) to house the remains of St Cecilia and her husband St Valerius, which were transferred to the church from the catacombs of San Callisto in 820. According to tradition, the church stands above the house of the saint. 

Paschal I appears in the beautiful mosaic in the apse; his halo is rectilinear to show that he was still alive when the mosaic was made. Above his halo, perched on a branch of a palm tree, is a phoenix, a symbol of the Resurrection. In the centre of the mosaic stands Christ with St Paul, St Agatha (wearing a crown) and Paschal I on the left and St Peter, St Valerian and St Cecilia on the right. At the lower level twelve lambs (representing the Apostles) emerge from the cities of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and converge on the Agnus Dei.

The baldacchino (1294) in the sanctuary is the signed work of Arnolfo di Cambio. 

On October 20th 1599, during the course of restoration work in the church, two marble sarcophagi were discovered. Cardinal
Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, the titular cardinal of the church, had the sarcophagi opened before the presence of witnesses. In one was a wooden casket, which contained the body of St Cecilia. Peering through the veil, which covered her body, they noted that the saint was small of stature and that her head was turned downward. A young sculptor, Stefano Maderno (1576-1636), was commissioned to depict the saint's body exactly as it was found. Maderno's sculpture is on display in a striking black marble recess, under the high altar. 

The interior of the church was radically transformed in the early 18th century when grilles were added in the upper gallery to allow the nuns to attend services. The fresco of the Coronation of St Cecilia (c. 1727) in the centre of the ceiling is the work of Sebastiano Conca (1680-1764). 

The facade was commissioned by 
Cardinal Francesco Acquaviva d'Aragona, titular priest of Santa Cecilia between 1709 and 1724, and designed by the Florentine architect Ferdinando Fuga (1699-1782). The cardinal's name is prominently displayed on the facade.  

The grand funerary monument in the loggia is that of Paolo Emilio Sfondrati, the cardinal who arranged the exhumation of St Cecilia in 1599 and who died in 1618. 

At the end of the right aisle a short corridor leads to the Cappella Rampolla, which was created as a funerary chapel for Cardinal Mariano Rampolla (1843-1913). The grand monument (1929) is the work of Enrico Quattrini. 

One of the casualties of the remodelling of the church was the loss of much of a fresco of the Last Judgement, which once adorned the counter-facade. What remains of this beautiful fresco, which 
was painted by Pietro Cavallini (circa 1293), can be seen by visiting the nuns' convent (entrance to the left of the church). 

The brick bell-tower, which was built in 1140, was left untouched by the remodelling of the body of the church. 

Nave, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Nave
Apse, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Apse
Coronation of St Cecilia by Conca, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Coronation of St Cecilia by Sebastiano Conca
St Cecilia by Stefano Maderno, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
St Cecilia by Stefano Maderno

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Apse mosaic, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome, Rome
Pope Paschal I, apse mosaic, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
A fragment of the fresco of the Last Judgement by Pietro Cavallini, the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Funerary monument to Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfrondati, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Marble effigy of St Cecilia by Stefano Maderno, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome
Funerary monument (1929) to Cardinal Mariano Rampolla by Enrico Quattrini, church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome

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    • S. Agnese fuori le Mura
    • S. Cecilia in Trastevere
    • S. Clemente
    • S. Francesca Romana
    • S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura
    • S. Marco
    • S. Maria in Domnica
    • S. Maria in Trastevere
    • S. Maria Maggiore
    • S. Prassede
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    • Ss. Cosma e Damiano
    • Ss. Nereo e Achilleo
  • Gallery
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    • Palazzo Spada
    • Palazzo Venezia
    • Villa Giulia
    • Villa Farnesina
    • Villa Medici
  • Galleries & Museums
    • Galleria Borghese
    • Galleria Colonna
    • Galleria Doria-Pamphilj
    • Musei Capitolini
  • Piazzas
    • Campo de' Fiori
    • Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta
    • Piazza del Campidoglio
    • Piazza del Popolo
    • Piazza del Quirinale
    • Piazza della Repubblica
    • Piazza Farnese
    • Piazza Navona
    • Piazza San Pietro
    • Piazza Vittorio
  • Miscellaneous
    • A Calendar of Saints
    • Antico Caffè Greco
    • Babington's Tea Rooms
    • Borromini & the Baroque
    • Catacombs
    • Cloisters
    • Column of the Immaculate Conception
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    • EUR
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    • Jewish Ghetto
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    • Knights of Malta
    • Mithraism
    • Monumental Complex of S. Spirito in Sassia
    • Ponte Sisto
    • 'Protestant' Cemetery
    • Quartiere Coppedè
    • Spanish Steps
    • 'Talking' Statues
    • Tiber Island
    • Villa Borghese
    • Vittoriano
  • Rioni
    • Rione I - Monti
    • Rione II - Trevi
    • Rione III - Colonna
    • Rione IV - Campo Marzio
    • Rione V - Ponte
    • Rione VI - Parione
    • Rione VII - Regola
    • Rione VIII - Sant' Eustachio
    • Rione IX - Pigna
    • Rione X - Campitelli
    • Rione XI - Sant' Angelo
    • Rione XII - Ripa
    • Rione XIII - Trastevere
    • Rione XIV - Borgo
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  • Pictures from Italy
    • Florence >
      • A Literary Tour
      • Anna Maria Luisa: Last of the Medici
      • Casa-Galleria Vichi
      • Column of Justice
      • Column of St Zenobius
      • Cosimo I de' Medici
      • Cosimo II de' Medici
      • Costanza Bonarelli
      • David With Fig Leaf
      • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
      • Equestrian Statue of Cosimo I de' Medici
      • Equestrian Statue of Ferdinando I de' Medici
      • Festina Lente
      • Floods
      • Fontana del Bacchino
      • Fontana dei Puttini
      • Fountain of Neptune
      • Fountains of the Marine Monsters
      • Gian Gastone de' Medici
      • Girolamo Savonarola
      • Images of the Annunciation
      • Little Devil
      • Monument to Cellini
      • Palazzo Bartolini-Salimbeni
      • Palazzo Bianca Cappello
      • Palazzo Fenzi
      • Palazzo Viviani
      • Perseus and Medusa
      • Piazza Santa Maria Novella
      • Pope Leo XI
      • Porta della Mandorla
      • Rape of the Sabine Woman
      • Santa Maria Novella
      • Canons' Palace
      • Statue of Dante
      • Theft of the Century
      • Torre del Arnolfo
      • Twelve Good Men
      • Villa Gamberaia
      • Wheel of the Innocents
      • 'Wine Windows'
    • Lazio >
      • Bomarzo: Parco dei Mostri
      • Viterbo: Santa Rosa
    • Tuscany >
      • Arezzo: Giorgio Vasari
      • Lucca: Puccini
      • Pistoia: Ospedale del Ceppo
      • Siena: The Balzana
    • Venice >
      • Ab Urbe Condita
      • Acqua Alta
      • Bartolomeo Colleoni
      • Barque of Dante
      • Burano
      • Caffè Florian
      • Daniele Manin
      • Flagpoles
      • Giustina Rossi
      • Gondolas
      • Harry's Bar
      • Henry James
      • House of Three Eyes
      • King Victor Emmanuel II
      • Map of Venice
      • Martinmas
      • Master of the House
      • Palazzo Contarini Fasan
      • Ponte Borgoloco
      • Ponte Chiodo
      • Punta del Dogana
      • Scacciadiavoli
      • Shrine of St Lucia
      • Sior Antonio Rioba
      • The 'Book Shitter'
      • The Lion's Mouth
      • Tommaso Rangone
      • Torcello
      • Venus
      • 'Viennese Oranges'
      • Wellheads
      • Winged Lions