Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo

Chiesa di Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo

Façade of the Church of Santa Maria Annunziata in Borgo
Basic information
Location Rome, Italy
Geographic coordinates 41°54′06.69″N 12°27′48.98″E / 41.9018583°N 12.4636056°E / 41.9018583; 12.4636056Coordinates: 41°54′06.69″N 12°27′48.98″E / 41.9018583°N 12.4636056°E / 41.9018583; 12.4636056
Affiliation Roman Catholic
Rite Latin Rite
Province Rome
Year consecrated 1745
Architectural description
Architect(s) Pietro Passalacqua
Architectural style Baroque
Groundbreaking 1742

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.

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.

Virgin of the Milk with the Child, fresco attributed to Antoniazzo Romano

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, liying 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.

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