Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of Christ's Passion Artist: Pietro Gagliardi • The altarpiece (not displayed) is Our Lady with Jesuit Saints ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Interior

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Borgia Artist: Pier Francesco Mola • The painting is St. Peter Baptizes Sts. Processus and Martinian ▲ ▶

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ ◀ Nave

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Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Tomb of Gregory XIV Artist: Prospero Bresciano • The statue on the right is Justice

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Tomb of Pope Clement VIII Artist: Ambrogio Buonvicino Date: 1610-1614 • The relief is Papal Victory over the Ferrara Insurgents

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ Door of the Sacraments Artist: Venanzo Crocetti Date: 1965 • The top panel is the Sacrament of Marriage • The bottom panel is the Sacrament of Eucharist

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Passage of Pope Innocent X

Anchor 1 Chapel of the Presentation Artist: Maratta and Giuseppe Chiari (designs) • The cupola is Glory of Mary and Fall of Lucifer Artist: Artist: Maratta and Giuseppe Chiari (designs) • The pendentives, from top left clockwise, are Miriam, Moses, Noah, and Aaron ▶ ◀ ▼

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