Let's continue for another day the religious thread that started on Thursday by briefly exploring an architectural inspiration in the Chiesa della Santissima Trinità degli Spagnoli (Church of the Holy Trinity of the Spaniards), located in the intersection between via del Corso and Via Condotti, in Rome.
Completed in 1746, the church was built in a baroque style by Portuguese architect Emanuele Rodriguez dos Santos with the help of Giuseppe Sardi. The church has got an oval plan but its orientation is along the longitudinal axis. There are seven intercommunicating chapels inside the church, four on the right and three on the left.
The paintings in the church are also from the 1700s: the white and gold elliptic ceiling incorporates an oculus with a fresco depicting "The Apotheosis of Saint John of Matha in Glory" (1748) by Rococo painter Gregorio Guglielmi. The dome is divided into eight sectors by ribs and each sector is coffered in a diamond pattern by interlacing ribwork (similar to wicker) containing lozenge-shaped rosettes. The simplicity of the repeated pattern produces here complexity and inspires an abundance of applications.
The motif offers indeed both aesthetic and technical possibilities in different fields and with different materials - think for example about weaving strands and strips of fabrics and textiles or diagonally overlapping them. In a nutshell by using this motif in a garment or accessory, technology and aesthetics would converge as the woven pattern with the rosettes is about structure and ornamentation.
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