Nuovi documenti sulla cappella Accoramboni in Sant’Andrea delle Fratte e sulla figura di Giovanni Somazzi

Abstract

A number of unpublished documents provide a more complete view regarding the realization of the Chapel of the Crucifix in
the Church of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte in Rome. It was created, from 1661 onwards, by Giovanni Somazzi, a marble craftsman
who had worked on many relevant building sites and with important architects such as Borromini, Bernini and Virgilio Spada,
as well as on various chapels during the seventeenth century. These experiences led him to take inspiration from various sites
and to compose, in a personal and autonomous way, the lay-out of Sant’Andrea, which freely syncretizes, using only quarry
stones, lexical elements from other Roman chaplaincies, drawing, too, from a peculiar and infrequent use of symbolic repertory.