St Luke and Martina Church
by Ginger Stein
Title
St Luke and Martina Church
Artist
Ginger Stein
Medium
Photograph - Monochrome Photography
Description
What caught my eye this wonderful day in Rome was how the light picked out one woman while the other people were in the shadows. Almost as if the church was choosing to enfold her in its glory somehow. Known in Rome as Santi Luca e Maritna. The church was initially dedicated to Saint Martina, martyred in 228 AD during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. In 625 Pope Honorius I commissioned construction of the church. Restored first in 1256 during the reign of Pope Alexander IV, it was a simple rectangular structure surrounded on three sides by other constructions until it was rebuilt by the painter and architect, Pietro da Cortona, in the seventeenth century.
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July 26th, 2018
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