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18-444: The previous chapel on this site was erected by Cardinal Lorenzo Cybo de Mari , nephew of Pope Innocent VIII , and dedicated to St Lawrence . Giorgio Vasari claimed that the patron was Cardinal Innocenzo Cybo but the dedication over the altar recorded the actual patron. Lorenzo Cybo de Mari was promoted to the cardinalate in 1489. The chapel was constructed during the time between his elevation and his death in 1503. Its architecture

36-467: A low tambour, and it is topped with a fanciful Baroque stone lantern. This lantern has tall semicircular windows, a strongly projecting modillion cornice, and it is crowned with a small, onion shaped cupola, a ball and a cross. Before the Neo-Classical rebuilding of the monastery by Valadier the chapel had the appearance of a freestanding, central-plan, small church by the side of the basilica behind

54-817: Is rather dark creating a brooding atmosphere. The huge altarpiece, painted with oil on the wall, is one of the most important works of Carlo Maratta , finished in 1686. It depicts the Disputation over the Immaculate Conception with the Four Doctors of the Church , St Augustine , John Chrysostom , John the Evangelist and Gregory the Great celebrating the purity of the Virgin . The composition

72-456: Is reminiscent of Raphael ’s, and the details are rendered with an extreme precision and a particularly felicitous touch. The small alabaster fiorito coffin below the altar contains the relics of St Faustina of Rome. These were exhumed from the Catacomb of Callixtus in 1686 and given to Cardinal Alderano Cybo. They were laid to rest in the chapel on 5 May 1687. The swirling fresco of the dome

90-588: The Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon , the papal society of painters. Garzi joined Rome's guild of painters , The Accademia di San Luca , in 1670 and became a director in 1682. He painted a Triumph of St Catherine & Saints for the church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome. He painted a St Silvestro shows Constantine portraits of Saints Peter and Paul for Santa Croce in Gerusalemme . In

108-759: The Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata ; his contribution is a Venus in the Forge of Vulcan . He also painted for San Silvestro in Capite and the Chiesa delle Santissima Stimmate di San Francesco . He contributed a canvas to the Cagli Cathedral . In Naples, he painted the ceiling and some chapels for Santa Caterina del Formello . He died in Rome. This article about an Italian painter born in

126-511: The dukes of Massa and princes of Carrara. Construction works began in 1682 and ended five years later. The chapel was consecrated on 19 May 1687. The cardinal commissioned three painters, Pier Francesco Garoli , Luigi Garzi and Carlo Maratta to record his visit in the new chapel on a painting which is preserved in the Museo di Roma ( Interior of the Cybo Chapel , 1687). The entrance arch

144-541: The altarpiece of the Ducal Chapel of the Cathedral of Massa . The very fine funeral monument of Lorenzo Cybo de Mari was transferred to the church of San Cosimato where its fragments are still preserved. It is attributed to Andrea Bregno and Giovanni Cristoforo Romano and was made between 1503 and 1510. The present chapel was built by Cardinal Alderano Cybo (1613-1700) to glorify the achievements of his family,

162-588: The early 1680s, he contributed to the frescoes on the vault of San Carlo al Corso , where his works included an Allegory of Faith . He also completed a fresco depicting the Glory of the Eternal Father (1686) for the dome of the Cybo Chapel in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo . He was one of the painters who contributed to the series of paintings depicting events from classical mythology displayed in

180-517: The same Seiter between 1698 and 1700. The compositions remained similar. The Cybo Chapel is the only one in the basilica where the decoration was extended on the corresponding section of the vault of the aisle. This surface is painted with a rich vegetal decoration of white acanthus scrolls on a yellow background. The keystone is decorated with the coat-of-arms of Pope Innocent VIII which is not very common in Rome. Lorenzo Cybo de Mari Lorenzo Cybo de Mari (c. 1450/1451 – 21 December 1503)

198-579: The vestibule by Daniel Seyter , the Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria and the Martyrdom of St Lawrence . The first versions of these were painted by the Viennese artist between 1685 and 1686 using an unusual technique, oil on plaster. The paintings rapidly deteriorated and the best preserved fragments were sent to Massa by the cardinal to his nephew, Duke Carlo II Cybo-Malaspina in 1697. They were substituted with traditional oil paintings on canvas by

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216-472: The wall of its enclosed garden. The main volume was a rectangular cube with cut off edges and two large semicircular windows on the side walls. The barrel-vaulted vestibule is enclosed by a black marble balustrade . Inside the chapel the walls are covered by rich polychrome revetments in black marble and green verde antico . The eight columns flanking the pillars at the corners are yellow, red veined Sicilian jasper with white marble capitals. The colour scheme

234-764: Was an Italian Catholic cardinal . He was archbishop of Benevento . As titular holder of the Basilica of Saint Mark in Rome, he is remembered today as the builder of the Appartamento Cibo a series of seven rooms within the north wing of the Palazzo Venezia . Born in Genoa , de Mari was an illegitimate child. According to some sources his paternity was attributed to Domenico de Mari, patrician of Genoa, brother of Teodorina and uncle of Maurizio Cybo, although another source states Maurizio (d. April 1491)

252-575: Was an Italian painter of the Baroque period whose style was strongly influenced by the work of the Bolognese painter Guido Reni . He was born in Pistoia . He started learning from a poorly known landscape painter, Salomon Boccali. At age 15, he moved to Rome, where he was one of the main pupils of Andrea Sacchi . He is also often referred to as Ludovico Garzi . In 1680 Garzi was appointed Regent of

270-552: Was decorated by the ducal arms of the Cybo Malaspina dynasty made of polychrome marble. The large chapel was constructed by Carlo Fontana in the form of a Greek cross set in a square. From the outside the chapel is almost totally hidden by view by the 19th-century extension of the Augustinian monastery except its dome which remains a prominent landmark on Piazza del Popolo . The lead-covered, octagonal dome rests on

288-411: Was executed by Luigi Garzi in 1684 and depicts The eternal Father in glory among angels . On the side walls are the tombs of Cardinal Alderano and Lorenzo Cybo with marble busts sculpted by Francesco Cavallini . The two bronze putti holding up the main altar and the medallion with the relief portrait of Saint Faustina on the martyr's urn are also his works. There are two paintings on the side walls of

306-573: Was his father. He was made cardinal on 9 March 1489 by his uncle, Pope Innocent VIII . He built the first Cybo Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in the beginning of the 16th century which was decorated by the frescos of Pinturicchio and the works of Andrea Bregno but was destroyed by Alderano Cybo in 1682-87. He also was bishop of Vannes in France, bishop of Palestrina (1493), bishop of Albano (1501) and bishop of Noli (1502). Luigi Garzi Luigi Garzi (1638–1721)

324-698: Was identical to those of the left and right: the Chapel of the Nativity and the Basso Della Rovere Chapel . It was decorated with frescos by Pinturicchio and works by the school of Andrea Bregno which were lost during the later rebuilding. The old fresco of the Virgin and the Child by Pinturicchio was detached from the wall and sent by the cardinal to Massa in 1687. The fragment was re-used as

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