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

Anchor 1 ▼ Back ▲ ▶ ◀

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

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Pier

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of the Relics of the Passion ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ S. Gregorio VII Papa al Gelsomino •

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ First Courtyard

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Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ S. Sebastiano •

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Entrance

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Lante della Rovere Chapel • This chapel was dedicated to St. James the Greater by the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Annunciation and then given to Lucrezia Salviati in the 16th century. On acquiring the chapel in the 1800s the Lante della Rovere family renovated the chapel retaining only the altar structure and altar painting of St. James the Greater • Facing opposite of the chapel, on the interior of the right pillar, is Funeral Memorial of Maria Raggi (1647-1653) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Chapel of St. Helen • The doorway leads to the Chapel of St. Helen • When St. Helen returned from Jerusalem with the cross she also brought soil from Calvary. This chapel is built on top of that soil. Thus the name of this church: Holy Cross in Jerusalem

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Excavations • A remains of few early Roman houses are visible • There is also a few Christian sarcophagi

Anchor 1 ▼ First Courtyard Artist: Tuscan school Date: 1588 • On the left is Birth of the Virgin • On the right is Presentation of Mary in the Temple • When the ceiling of the portico was reduced in 1632 it harmed the paintings ▶

Anchor 1 ▲ ▶ Chapel of St. Dominic • ▼