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 ▼ Crucifixion Chapel Artist: Cavalier d'Arpino • The painting is St. John Evangelist and Disciples

Anchor 1 ▼ Tomb of Pope Sergius IV

Anchor 1 ▼ Crucifixion Chapel Artist: Giacomo Della Porta • The chapel was designed by Giacomo Della Porta ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ St. Sylvester Chapel Artist: Raffaellino da Reggio Date: 1570 • The left wall is Martyrdom of the Quattro Coronati • The 4 soldiers are being scourged near an Asclepius statue ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Capranica Chapel • This chapel was established by the Capranica family in 1449. The tomb of St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380) was kept here from 1430-1855. After the historical Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Angelo Capranica, a descendant of the family and member of the Confraternity of the Rosary, had Marcello Venusti decorate the ceiling with the Mysteries of the Rosary in 1573. A few years later in 1579, the chapel itself was dedicated to the Madonna of the Rosary. Giovanni de' Vecchi added the Stories of St. Catherine of Siena in 1586. The tomb of St. Catherine of Siena was moved to the main altar in 1855 where she still lies today

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Nave

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Our Lady of the Assumption Altar Artist: Guilio Romano; Giovanni Francesco Date: 1492 (copy) • The altarpiece is Coronation of Mary. This is a mosaic copy of the original which can be found in the Vatican Pinacoteca

Anchor 1 ▼ Left Transept Artist: Pier Paolo Olivieri Date: 1599 ca • At the top of the monument is the name of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) who was the benefactor of the renovations • The four bronze fluted columns are said to be from the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus in the Roman Forum • Behind the bronze relief of the Last Supper is a piece of wood that is said to be of the table used by Jesus during the last supper ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Gregory the Great Artist: Francesco Nappi; Girolamo Nanni Date: 1640 ca • The fresco is The Most Holy Trinity with the Virgin, Several Holy Monks, and Angels Delivering Souls from Purgatory. Of the Holy Monks, on center left, is St. Gregory the Great and, center right, St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Inscription of Gregory II • The inscription of Pope Gregory II (715-731) notes his donation of 56 olive trees which are to supply the oil in the lamps for St. Peter's tomb under the main altar

Anchor 1 Portico • The inscription above the arches notes the completion of the doorways was in the fourteenth year of the reign of Pope Paul V (1605-1621). Thus 1619. The portico itself had been completed in 1612 • Under the central three arches of the entryway can be seen lists with the names of clergy that were present for the declaration of Mary's Assumption into Heaven by Pope Pius XII (1939-1958) on November 1, 1950 ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Ponziani Chapel • This chapel is tied to St. Francis of Rome (1384-1440) • The husband of St. Francis of Rome was of the Ponziani family • The children of St. Francis of Rome, Evangelista and Agnes, are buried in the chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ St. Processus and St. Martinian