Santissima Trinità dei Monti - Roma, Italy
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Twin bell towers of Santissima Trinità dei Monti in Roma, Italy.
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Location: Lazio, Italy
Date Posted: 07/02/2019
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Overlooking Piazza di Spagna and recognizable by its two bell towers, the church of the Santissima Trinità dei Monti, often called merely the Trinità dei Monti, is a Roman Catholic late Renaissance titular church in Rome.
Santissima Trinità dei Monti has two identical campanili, with a slightly recessed central section between them. Each campanile has three storeys, the second being half the height of the first and the third being the actual bellchamber above the roofline.
The first storey of each has a pair of Corinthian pilasters at the outer corners, duplicated round the corners and on high limestone plinths. These support an entablature with a molded architrave, and a projecting cornice with dentillations and modillions. The modillions are fronded, and have rosettes between them. The entablatures of the campanile are joined across the central section of the façade, which gives the design some unity.
Between the pilasters, and with its keystone touching the architrave, is a blind arch springing from Doric imposts and with a molded archivolt. The impost capitals are joined by a molded string course, and the tympanum thus created contains a vertical oval oculus (round window) with a molded stone frame. A large rectangular window is in the arch, again with a molded frame.
The second storey of each campanile is almost cubical, and has a large clockface within a molded frame flanked by a pair of Doric pilasters.
The third storey, the actual tower, is a rectangular kiosk with a large arched and balustraded soundhole on each face. The arches have Doric imposts, and the kiosk has an Ionic pilaster on each corner. Each side has a triangular pediment, and above these is an octagonal drum with an elliptical opening on every other face. This in turn supports an ogee-curved cupola in lead, with a final little octagonal pepperpot finial with its own miniature cupola.
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