The dome—long the third largest in town, after the Pantheon and St. Peter's—was, like the facade, was designed by Carlo Maderno. It was frescoed in 1608–27 by two former pupils of Carracci.
Giovanni Lanfranco was hired to do the central Assumption of the Virgin. His buddy Domenichino did the Evangelists on the pendatives—as well as the Scenes from the Life of St. Andrew in the coffers of the choir.
The facade of Sant'Andrea della Valle
The famous humanist Piccolomini popes from Siena, Pius II and Pius III, are both buried inside.
(A later Piccolomini, Donna Costanza Piccolomini d'Aragona, owned a place on this site. Since her titles was "Duchess of Amalfi," when she willed this plot to the Theatine order to build a new church, they dedicated it to Amalfi's patron, St. Andrew.)
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II/Piazza Vidoni 6
tel. +39-06-686-1339
Open daily 7:30am–12:30 and 4:30–7:30pm
Free
Bus: 46, 62, 64, 571, 916, 916F, 70, 81, 87, 186, 492, 628, N5, N15, N20, N6, N7
Planning your day: Honestly? In, like, 10 minutes you can wander in and out and be done with it. It's an impressively large church inside, but not particularly engaging. It's famous mostly as a setting for the Puccini opera, and for the sumptuousness of all those painted ceilings.. » Rome itineraries
You can attend services at Sant'Andrea della Valle Saturdays at 7pm; Sundays at 8am, 9am, 11am, noon, and 7pm.
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This article was written by Reid Bramblett and was last updated in March 2014.
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