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Anchor 1 ▼ North Entrance Date: 1500s ▲ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Gregorian Chapel ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ North Entrance Date: 1500s ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Barbara ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas Artist: Pirro Ligorio, Giacomo and Tommaso Cassignola Date: 1566 • This is the Funeral Monument of Paul IV. Pope Paul IV was Giampietro Carafa the nephew of Oliviero Carafa the patron of the chapel. Oliviero was to be buried in the funeral cella but was instead buried in Naples • Giorgio Vasari relates that Lippi's fresco on the struggle of virtue and vice was destroyed to make room for this monument • The columns on the sides of the tomb are verde antico • Two reclining statues that were part of this monument can be found near St. Catherine of Siena's Room through the Sacristy ▼

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Oratorio di S. Giovanni in Oleo • ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Sacred Heart Chapel Artist: Joseph Peniz and Paul Bril • The painting is Friar Sees St. Francis Ascending

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Portico

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ St. Benedict Chapel Artist: Luigi Poletti Date: 1800s • After the fire, this chapel was redesigned by Poletti to recall the cella of a Greco-Roman temple. The grey columns are ancient columns from Veio. In the original basilica, this space was the entrance passage from the Via Ostiense Artist: Pietro Tenerari Date: 1800s • The statue is St. Benedict. He is the founder of the Benedictine order

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Entrance

Anchor 1 ▼ S. Sebastiano • The painting is of Pope St. John Paul II

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ Ceiling Artist: Corrado Giaquinto Date: 1744 • The carved wood ceiling is St. Helen in Glory. • The coat of arms, not pictured here, is of Pope Benedict XIV

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

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Altar of St. Jerome ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ All Saints Chapel Artist: Carlo Maratti Date: 1671 • The painting over the altar is St. Peter Presents Five Blessed Ones to the Virgin • The five blessed ones in the painting are those saints canonized in 1671 by Pope Clement X: St. Louis Bertrand, St. Rose of Lima, St. Filippo Benizzi, St. Francesco Borgia, and St. Gaetano Thiene. St Louis and St. Rose were also Dominicans

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Helen ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Left Aisle

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of Pius IX Artist: Ludwig Seitz Date: 1890 ca. • The various coat of arms are of dioceses and institutes that contributed to the chapel ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Baldachin Artist: Arnolfo di Cambio Date: 1285 • The corner statue is the Benedictine abbot Bartholomew who commissioned the baldachin. The statue has sometimes been identified as St. Benedict, founder of the Benedictine order

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