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Anchor 1 ▼ Ananias and Sapphira Artist: Cristoforo Roncalli Date: Mosaic copy • In the story of Acts of the Apostles 5:1-10, Ananias and Sapphira lie to the church and are struck down in death • Ananias' body is being removed in the top right background, while Sapphira dies in the foreground

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Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of Our Lady della Strada Artist: Valeriano and Scipione Pulzone • The painting is the Assumption of Mary

Anchor 1 Chapel of St. Dominic • ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Crucifixion Chapel • The painting is St. Peter

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Sebastian Artist: Antonio Giorgetti Date: • The statue is of St. Sebastian after being shot by arrows. Sebastian was an officer in the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian (284-305). Sentenced to death for being a Christian, the archers were ordered to shoot him. A widow Irene nursed him back to health and he again went before the emperor and was clubbed to death • Although often depicted as a youth, early artwork shows him as of a mature age ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Sacred Heart Chapel Artist: Baldassarre Croce Date: 1599 • The cupola has doctors and evangelists of the church ▲

Anchor 1 ▼ Immacolata e S. Benedetto G. Labre •

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Tomb of Raphael

Anchor 1 ▶ ▲ ◀ Interior Church established: 1670 • The church is elliptical in shape and is a combination of polychrome marbles. The dual pairs of fluted red and white cottanello columns support an architrave that bends with the church • The carrara marble pilasters form eight chapels. These chapels were designed by Mattia De Rossi who was an assistant to Bernini • The Corinthian columns have the Pampili dove with an olive branch sitting on them • The arches opening to the side altars are cottanello marble with Sicilian jasper friezes and spandrels

Anchor 1 ▼ Cappella S. Filippo Neri •

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Xavier Artist: Giovanni Andrea Carlone • On the left is St. Francis Xavier Finds His Lost Crucifix • The center is St. Francis Xavier in Glory • On the right is St. Francis Xavier Baptizes an Indian Princess ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of the Passion Artist: Giacinto Brandi Date: 1682 • The painting over the altar is Christ Taken from the Cross • After Jesus dies on the cross, he is taken down to be buried. Mary Magdalene, a follower of Jesus who had seven demons cast out of her, holds Jesus' hand. Mary, the mother of Jesus, holds out her hands in the background. The other figures are less certain.

Anchor 1 ▼ S. Sebastiano •

Anchor 1 ▼ Sacristy and Treasury

Anchor 1 ▼ Albani Chapel ▲

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Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Francis Xavier