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Chiesa dei Santi Isidoro e Eurosia

Historic site · Ostiense, Italy

A small church on via delle Sette Chiese, known as la Chiesoletta, on the pilgrimage route between San Paolo and San Sebastiano. The entrance pronaos is attributed to Giuseppe Valadier, and the portico holds three plaster relief bozzetti held to be by Antonio Canova: a Virgin with the Child and St John the Baptist, The Saviour receiving the children, and St John the Baptist baptising Christ. Inside there is a single nave with a central altar in polychrome marble, four side windows and a cantoria.

History

An external plaque records that it was built in 1818 by Monsignor Nicola Maria Nicolai, whose family held the neighbouring tenuta dei 12 cancelli; the dedicatory inscription of 1818 survives. The church fell into ruin in the 19th century and was bought and restored by the Oratorian priest Generoso Calenzio. It is now annexed to the parish of San Filippo Neri in Eurosia, under the Oratorian Confederation.

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Via delle Sette Chiese, Roma RM

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