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Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Torlonia Chapel Artist: Giuseppe Barba Date: 1829 ca. • The monument is Tomb of Anna Torlonia. Anna was the wife of Giovanni Torlonia whose tomb is opposite

Anchor 1 ▼ Door • These doors are often the entrance to various museum exhibits

Anchor 1 ▼ Nave Artist: Alessandro Algardi (design) Date: 1650 • The relief on the right is Adam and Eve are expelled from the garden of Eden. This story is found in the Bible in Genesis 3:23 • The relief on the left is Noah and the flood. This story can be found in Genesis 6:5-9:17 • The prophet on the upper right is Isaiah. The prophet on the upper left is Baruch ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Nave • The Latin inscription on the right reads: "Whatever you declare bound on earth shall be bound in heaven; whatever you declare loosed on earth shall be loosed in heaven" (Mt 16:19) ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Sacred Heart Chapel Artist: Mino da Fiesole Date: 1480 ca. • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Francesco Tornabuoni. Tornabuoni (d. 1480) was a merchant from Florence. There are many Florentines buried here as this was the primary church in Rome for the Florentines before the construction of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in 1518 • This monument was previously in the Naro Chapel when it was the Tornabuoni Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Tomb of Paul III Artist: Guglielmo Della Porta Date: 1551-1575 • The bronze statue of Pope Paul III (1534-1549) is in the center. The marble statue on the left is Justice and on the right Prudence • This monument was moved here in 1629

Anchor 1 ▼ Baldachin ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Triumphal Arch Artist: Cesare Fracassini Date: 1868 • The painting has Mary and the child Jesus at center surrounded by angels. On the left are St. Cyriaca and St. Stephen. On the right are St. Lawrence and St. Justin Martyr • The inscription notes that it was Pope Pius IX who renovated the church in 1864. Pope Pius IX (1846-1878) is buried below the presbytery • Daniel is at the left spandrel and Isaiah is at the right

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of the Passion • After Jesus is turned over to the authorities by Judas, Jesus is made to endure many sufferings. The three paintings in this chapel recall three of these episodes

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Mark Artist: Cesare Nebbia • The medallion is St. Mark • The medallion diameter is 29 feet. St. Mark's quill is 5 feet Artist: Cristoforo Roncalli • Outside of the medallion are Angels • The Latin inscription above reads: "You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church. I will entrust to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven" (Mt 16:18) ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Interior Temple to god Minerva: 50 BC by Pompey the Great Original church built over ruins: 741-752 by Pope Zacharias Current Gothic church: 1280-1370 probably by Dominican Friars Sisto and Ristoro based on S. Maria Novella in Florence Renaissance renovation: 16th by Giuliano da Sangallo Baroque additions: 1600 by Carol Maderno Neo-Gothic restoration: 1848-1855 by Fra Girolamo Bianchedi Stained glass windows: 19th • Pope Alexander IV gave the Dominicans the monastery next to the church (1256) and the church itself (1275). This campus became known as the insula sapientae (Island of Wisdom) or insula dominicana (Dominican Island) • Site of two Papal conclaves. Cardinals elected Pope Eugenius IV on March 3, 1431 and Pope Nicholas V on March 6, 1447 • The offices of the Inquisition were established in the convent in 1628. After Galileo was tried for heresy, it was here he abjured his scientific theses of the Copernican theory on June 22, 1633 • The studium was reorganized by Juan Salano, O.P. in 1577 into the College of St. Thomas. French occupation and Italian expropriation moved the school to Sts. Dominic and Sixtus in 1932 as the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Monument of Leo XII Artist: Giuseppe Fabris Date: 1836 • The statue is Monument of Leo XII. Pope Leo XII's (1823-1829) tomb is in the opposite corner of St. Peter's in front of the Chapel of Our Lady of the Column. This is also near the tomb of St. Leo the Great his most famous namesake

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Cesi Chapel Artist: Unknown • The painting is St. Catherine of Alexandria Taken to Heaven by Angels

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Aisle

Anchor 1 ▼ Cloister Date: Early 1200s • This is the cloister area Date: 1100 • The basin, which is marble, may have been originally located in the first courtyard ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ S. Saba •

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Barbara • The damaged paintings are of events in the life of St. Barbara

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ St. Wenceslaus

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ S. Sebastiano

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of Pius IX