Search this site

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Tomb of Pope Paul V Artist: Nicolas Cordier Date: 1610-1615 • The statue is St. Denis

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ St. Veronica Relic Artist: Bernini Date: 1627 ca. • Each of the four piers are dedicated to an important relic that is housed in the balcony area above each statue. The decorations were designed by Bernini for Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644). Thus Urban's VIII's coat of arms is at the base. The spiral columns are from the altar of old St. Peter's • The relic for this pier is the veil of St. Veronica. The veil is recorded to have been in old St. Peter's around the year 1000. According to the story, St. Veronica miraculously had the imprint of Jesus' face remain on her veil during the passion of Jesus

Anchor 1 ▼ Portico Artist: Ludovico Pogliaghi Date: 1949 • These bronze doors were donated by Pope Pius XII (1939-1958). They mark different events from Mary's life

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Dominic • ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ Life of St. Paul From left to right: Artist: Vincenzo Morani Date: 1857-1860 • Paul and Silas Flogged at Philippi Artist: Giuseppi Sereni Date: 1857-1860 • Conversion of the Jailer at Philippi Artist: Giovan Battista Pianello Date: 1857-1860 • Paul on the Areopagus at Athens • These chronologically ordered scenes from the life of St. Paul were intended by Pope Pius IX to replace the Cavallini works destroyed by the fire ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Tomb of Pope Paul V Artist: Stefano Maderno Date: 1610-1615 • The relief is Emperor Rudolph of Hungary Goes into Battle

Anchor 1 ▼ St. Lawrence Chapel Artist: Arturo Viligiardi; Anastasio Faontebuoni Date: 1900s • The ceiling fresco with angels is by Viligiardi with the sibyls and prophets by Fontebuoni

Anchor 1 ▼ Gregorian Room • Almost all of the original apse mosaic of 1220, in the main church, has been removed due to the 1747 renovation and later fire. Parts of the original work can be found in this room ▶ ◀

▼ ▶ Anchor 1 Ponziani Chapel Artist: Attributed to Antonio da Viterbo Date: 16th century • This fresco is of St. Sebastian

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Chapel of St. Ignatius of Loyola Artist: Angelo De Rossi • The relief is Pope Paul III Approves the Society of Jesus

Anchor 1 ▼ Main Altar Artist: Guillaume Courtois Date: 1668 • The painting over the altar is the Martyrdom of St. Andrew • St. Andrew was an apostle of Jesus who is tradionally said to have been crucified on an X shaped cross • The frame for the painting is cottanello marble on a mosaic background

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Dominic •

Anchor 1 ▼ Main Altar Artist: Fuga Date: 1747 • The relics of St. Matthew and other martyrs are in the altar • Fuga reused the four porphyry pillars of the earlier baldacin of Mino del Reame (1474 ca.) • The coat of arms of Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758), who was responsible for the renovations, are at the base of the pillars Artist: Giuseppe Valadier Date: 1823 • Added the bronze palm branches to the baldacin pillars

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Vestibule Artist: School of Andrea Bregno Date: 1488 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Agapito and Paolo Rustici • Before this became the vestibule it was the family chapel of the Rustici family

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Aldobrandini Chapel Artist: Giacomo della Porta, Nicolas Cordier Date: 1611 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Silvestro Aldobrandini. Giacomo della Porta designed the statue and Nicolas Cordier executed the work. Silvestro (d. 1558) was the father of Pope Clement VIII • The statue on the left is Force (1611) by Ippolito Buzi • The statue on the right is Prudence (1611) by Ippolito Buzi

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of the Holy Trinity

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Nave

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Crucifixion Chapel • The painting is St. Paul

Anchor 1 ▼ Clementine Chapel Artist: Andrea Sacchi Date: Mosaic copy • The altarpiece is Miracle of St. Gregory the Great. Pope Gregory I holds a cut cloth from which blood flows. This miracle has happened because the cloth was touched to relics of saints • The original painting of Sacchi is in the Vatican Pinacoteca ◀ ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ Clementine Chapel • Relics of Pope Gregory I (590-604) were placed in the altar in 1606