Rating
4.5/5 (based on Google user reviews)
User Reviews
David (16 months ago)
A wonderful church full to the brim of great frescoes.
A wonderful church full to the brim of great frescoes.
Teusz Macherja (22 months ago)
One of the prettiest places in the Roman Forum and Palatium Hill.
One of the prettiest places in the Roman Forum and Palatium Hill.
Guus Stoelinga (2 years ago)
Fantastic old church, abandoned after the 847 earthquake. The todays presentation with audio and video shows how the church has been decorated in the various stages of its use. Highly recommended.
Fantastic old church, abandoned after the 847 earthquake. The todays presentation with audio and video shows how the church has been decorated in the various stages of its use. Highly recommended.
Avery DeMarco (2 years ago)
My highlight on my trip to the Forum, and I accidentallystumbled on it! The art is amazing, and the history behind the church is fascinating. The experience is enhanced by digital features showing the development of the art. It's a must see, despite it being secluded!
My highlight on my trip to the Forum, and I accidentallystumbled on it! The art is amazing, and the history behind the church is fascinating. The experience is enhanced by digital features showing the development of the art. It's a must see, despite it being secluded!
Gianluca Pica (4 years ago)
As a tour guide I had the extraordinary opportunity, when it was open, to visit the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua and also to bring tourists, who were amazed by what they saw. And how to blame them ... After all, the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua is a building, or what remains of it including frescoes, which fully represents the polychrome and style typical of the Middle Ages, a period often mistreated but which has left us many beautiful artists. In this case we have a church, brought to light after painstaking restoration work that lasted years, dating back to around the 6th - 7th century, a church that certainly must have been beautiful and with the walls completely covered with frescoes. And it is extraordinary to see still today numerous remains of paintings that are also brought back to life through new visual technologies. A combination of modernity and the Middle Ages that makes the place unique. One of the strong points of the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (which was buried by an earthquake in the 9th century and which was rediscovered only 1100 years later) is the small chapel to the left of the altar where we see a beautiful painted Crucifixion in which Christ is dressed in a long blue dress typical of oriental iconography. At the time, around the seventh century AD, there were many monks or scholars who moved here from the East, bringing with them a breath of fresh air in style and more. And this little fresco is capable of showing us all this.
As a tour guide I had the extraordinary opportunity, when it was open, to visit the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua and also to bring tourists, who were amazed by what they saw. And how to blame them ... After all, the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua is a building, or what remains of it including frescoes, which fully represents the polychrome and style typical of the Middle Ages, a period often mistreated but which has left us many beautiful artists. In this case we have a church, brought to light after painstaking restoration work that lasted years, dating back to around the 6th - 7th century, a church that certainly must have been beautiful and with the walls completely covered with frescoes. And it is extraordinary to see still today numerous remains of paintings that are also brought back to life through new visual technologies. A combination of modernity and the Middle Ages that makes the place unique. One of the strong points of the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua (which was buried by an earthquake in the 9th century and which was rediscovered only 1100 years later) is the small chapel to the left of the altar where we see a beautiful painted Crucifixion in which Christ is dressed in a long blue dress typical of oriental iconography. At the time, around the seventh century AD, there were many monks or scholars who moved here from the East, bringing with them a breath of fresh air in style and more. And this little fresco is capable of showing us all this.
