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Santa Maria della Scala (English: Mary of the Staircase) is a titular church in Rome, Italy, located in the Trastevere rione. It is served by friars of the Discalced Carmelite Order . Cardinal Ernest Simoni took possession of the titular church on 11 February 2017.
Santa Maria della Scala was a church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and located in the center of Milan. It was erected in Gothic style in the 14th century by Beatrice Regina della Scala, wife of the Lord of Milan Bernabò Visconti, and demolished in the 18th century to make way for a new theatre called Teatro alla Scala after her name.
A fresco at Scala Sancta. The decoration of the Scala Sancta was one of the major renovations of the pontificate of Pope Sixtus V, led by Cesare Nebbia and Giovanni Guerra and occupying a crew of artists to decorate frescoes including Giovanni Baglione, Giacomo Stella, Giovanni Battista Pozzo, Paris Nogari, Prospero Orsi, [9] Ferraù Fenzoni, Paul Bril, Paulo Guidotti, Giovanni Battista Ricci ...
West front of the church. The Collegiate Church of Santa Maria della Scala in Chieri (Italian: Chiesa Collegiata di Santa Maria della Scala; Duomo di Chieri) is a late-Gothic Roman Catholic collegiate church, and the principal church or duomo, in the town of Chieri, Province of Turin, region of Piedmont, Italy.
The painting was commissioned by Laerzio Cherubini, a papal lawyer, for his chapel in the Carmelite church of Santa Maria della Scala in Trastevere, Rome; the painting could not have been finished before 1605–06. [5] The depiction of the Death of the Virgin caused a contemporary stir, and was rejected as unfit by the parish.
Santa Maria della Scala (also referred to as the Hospital, Ospedale, and Spedale) is located in Siena, Italy.Now a museum, it was once an important civic hospital dedicated to caring for abandoned children, the poor, the sick, and pilgrims.
The church presbytery contains a mosaic by Francesco Zucca made after designs of Giovanni della Vecchia. [2] An old tradition claims that 10,000 Christian slaves who died while building the Baths of Diocletian are buried in the church's crypt, and are venerated as St Zeno [3] and Companions. Some dead slaves from this project are likely buried ...
Santa Maria delle Scale, Ragusa. Santa Maria delle Scale (i.e. "St. Mary of the Stairs") is a church located in Ragusa, Sicily. It was built by the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Santa Maria di Roccadia in Lentini, in the first half of the 13th century, in a Gothic style. In the second half of the 18th century, because of the increase of the ...