Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Pace is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, not far from Piazza Navona, and it carries a Renaissance plan associated with Donato Bramante. Even before today’s building, a church called Sant’Andrea de Aquarizariis stood here, and in 1482 Pope Sixtus IV commissioned the work on its foundations. In 1480, the Virgin Mary’s cult was tied to a “miraculous bleeding” attributed to a Madonna image on the site—so the church was rededicated to the Virgin to mark it. In the 17th century, Pope Alexander VII Chigi commissioned Pietro da Cortona to enlarge the tiny Piazza della Pace in front of the 15th-century church between 1656 and 1667. The redesign required demolishing houses and produced a new Baroque facade with a semicircular portico, while the piazza’s shape helped carriages turn—something fashionable for Rome’s nobility. …
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