Santa Maria in Cappella and Its Neighborhood Around

Title

Santa Maria in Cappella and Its Neighborhood Around

Subject

Neighborhoods

Description

This is a typical parish church in the densest settlement in between the river and Via della Lungaretta. It is in a prevailing style with an arcaded narthex extends along the façade, a campanile rises within it. The period of eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed active development centering the city ports, including Ripa Grande, which facilitated merchandise activities around. The adjacency to Ripa Grande would likely make area close to the church a complex and integrative urban experience within the merchants community. Therefore combined with the function of the church itself, Santa Maria in Cappella could well represent a heterogeneity of the public and private spaces. As you stand in front of the church today, you would wonder how time has shifted commerce away from the river side, modified the local topography and replaced the busy streets with quiet residential houses. In the nineteenth century, as high walls were built along Tiber for prevention floods and development of the railroad, the Ripa Grande lost its role in trade and the landscape around were altered. However, the church remains as a witness to this transformation of the neighborhood.

Abstract

This is a typical parish church in the densest settlement in between the river and Via della Lungaretta.It is in a prevailing style with an arcaded narthex extends along the façade, a campanile rises within it. The period of eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed active development centering the city ports, including Ripa Grande, which facilitated merchandise activities around.

Creator

Ruyi Shen (2017)

Source

Deborah King, Robin. Streets, Critical Perspective on Public Space, 165, ed. Zeynep Çelik, Diane Fevro, and Richard Ingersoll. University of California, 1978.

Deborah King, Robin. A Case Study of Medieval Urban Process: Rome’s Trastevere (1250-1450), 162. University of California, 1978.

Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308, 167. Princeton University Press, 2000. “Porto di

Ripa Grande”, accessed April 23, 2015, http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi97.htm

Identifier

santamariacappella_2015

Coverage

1000s

Spatial Coverage

Via Pietro Peretti, 6, 00153 Roma RM

Description

This is a typical parish church in the densest settlement in between the river and Via della Lungaretta. It is in a prevailing style with an arcaded narthex extends along the façade, a campanile rises within it. The period of eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed active development centering the city ports, including Ripa Grande, which facilitated merchandise activities around. The adjacency to Ripa Grande would likely make area close to the church a complex and integrative urban experience within the merchants community. Therefore combined with the function of the church itself, Santa Maria in Cappella could well represent a heterogeneity of the public and private spaces. As you stand in front of the church today, you would wonder how time has shifted commerce away from the river side, modified the local topography and replaced the busy streets with quiet residential houses. In the nineteenth century, as high walls were built along Tiber for prevention floods and development of the railroad, the Ripa Grande lost its role in trade and the landscape around were altered. However, the church remains as a witness to this transformation of the neighborhood.

Creator

Ruyi Shen (2017)

Coverage

1000s

Source

Deborah King, Robin. Streets, Critical Perspective on Public Space, 165, ed. Zeynep Çelik, Diane Fevro, and Richard Ingersoll. University of California, 1978.

Deborah King, Robin. A Case Study of Medieval Urban Process: Rome’s Trastevere (1250-1450), 162. University of California, 1978.

Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308, 167. Princeton University Press, 2000. “Porto di

Ripa Grande”, accessed April 23, 2015, http://www.romeartlover.it/Vasi97.htm

Geolocation