GENOA - Church of Jesus

The church of Gesù, whose original name is the church of Saints Ambrogio and Andrea, is located in the center of the city, in Piazza Matteotti, adjacent to Piazza De Ferrari, the same square overlooked by the Palazzo Ducale and the palace of the archiepiscopal curia Genoese. Run by the Jesuits since the sixteenth century, the very rich interiors contain works by Rubens, Reni, and the major authors of the Genoese Baroque. It was built in its current form by the Jesuits in 1589 based on a project by the Jesuit Giuseppe Valeriano, who also designed the Church of Gesu Nuovo in Naples, thanks to funding from the important Pallavicini family. The plan appears to be traced by Valeriano on that of Santa Maria Assunta in Carignano built a few years earlier by Alessi. At the beginning of the seventeenth century the side chapels, sponsored by the wealthiest Genoese families such as the Durazzos and the Raggios, whose coats of arms are still visible carved into the marbles, were enriched with important masterpieces by Rubens, Reni, Vouet, becoming the cradle of the Genoese Baroque. The facade was completely rebuilt in the second half of the 19th century, taking the designs of Peter Paul Rubens as a model. Completed in 1894, the two statues of Michele Ramognino, of Sant'Ambrogio and Sant'Andrea were inserted in it. Inside, in the vaults of the central nave there are frescoes by the Genoese brothers Giovanni Battista and Giovanni Carlone, depicting Stories from the life of Christ and the Virgin, also authors of the Triumph of the name of Christ in the main dome, a usual subject of Jesuit churches. Giovanni Carlone is the author in 1624 of those on the vaults of the presbytery, the transept and the nave, and Giovanni Battista Carlone of the frescoes depicting the Evangelists in the corbels of the dome. On the main altar there are various pictorial works such as the canvas depicting the Circumcision painted by the Dutch painter Pieter Paul Rubens datable to 1608, during his first stay in Genoa, flanked by the lunettes with the Massacre of the Innocents by Giovanni Battista Merano and the Flight into Egypt by Dominic Piola.
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12:53 - "Circumcision", canvas by Peter Paul Rubens, 1608
21:30 - "Assumption of the Virgin", canvas by Guido Reni, 1616
24:13 - "Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola" , canvas by Pieter Paul Rubens, 1620
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[@elisabethnouveau1580]

Que de belles églises à Rome c'est un régal pour les yeux. Celle si est une de mes préférées. Que dieu vous bénisse.

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[@sydneyr.cauveren7857]

So much exquisite art compacted in one building. It is really awe inspiring. And, to realise there are hundreds of such churches / basilicas etc. in Italy... You are doing a fabulous job recording so much of it Massimo. Many Thanks...from "Down Under"

[@MassimoNalli]

ciao Sydney grazie