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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

Anchor 1 ▼ Baptismal Font Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Baptistery

Anchor 1 S. Maria ad Martyres (Pantheon) Agrippa temple to all the gods: 27BC Hadrian rebuild: 117-138 Boniface IV consecrates as Church: 609 • Hadrian's Latin inscription says Marcus Agrippa built this during his third term as consul • The 16 granite columns are about 42 feet high and 15 feet around. Popes Urban VIII and Alexander VII (1655-1667) replaced the three on the left • The walls have brick from 115-124 which would have been covered with marble • The niches on each side of the main door had large statues of Agrippa, on the left, and Augustus, on the right ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Facade Artist: Filippo Agricola; Nicola Consoni Date: 1854-1874 • Christ is giving a blessing with Peter on the left and Paul on the right • The Lamb of God, seated over the four rivers of paradise, the four gospels, is approached by twelve sheep, the twelve apostles, from the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem • Four prophets, from left, are Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. They each spoke of the coming of Jesus

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Interior

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Andrew the Apostle Artist: Agostino Ciampelli • The pendentives are various bishop martyrs • The lunette is the martyrdom of St. Agnes ▲ ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Apse Artist: Umbrian school. Potentially Antoniazzo Romano Date: 1495 ca • The apse fresco is Finding and Triumph of the Cross. Above Jesus gives a blessing. The lower is the story of the cross: St. Helen figures out where it is buried, she finds the cross, the cross brings a young man back to life, St. Helen raises the cross for worship with the benefactor of the apse Cardinal Carvajal, the king of Persia Chosroes II takes the cross in 615 when he wins Jerusalem, emperor Heraclius defeats the Persians and returns the cross

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Dominic •

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Tomb of Pope Clement VIII Artist: Flaminio Ponzio Date: 1610-1614 • The statue is of Pope Clement VIII (1592-1605) with reliefs of the key events of his reign. Pope Paul V placed his tomb here because he made him a cardinal Artist: Guido Reni • Left of the window is Vision of St. John Damascene • Right of the window is Vision of St. Ildephonse Artist: Ippolito Buzzi • Left upper relief is Peace between Philip II of Spain and Henry IV of France Artist: Pietro Bernini • Center upper relief is Coronation of Clement VIII Artist: Valsoldino • Right upper relief is Canonization of St. Hyacinth and St. Raymond