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

Anchor 1 ▼ Caffarelli Chapel Artist: Gaspare Celio Date: 1621 • The painting is Christ Receives St. Dominic Presented by the Virgin • Modern restorations uncovered this fresco behind a 19th century candle-stick decoration ▶ ▲

Anchor 1 St. Stephen Chapel & Blessed Sacrament Chapel ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Left Aisle ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Entrance

Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Nave ▲

Anchor 1 Left Transept ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Tomb of Gregory XVI Artist: Luigi Amici Date: 1854 • The monument is Tomb of Gregory XVI. The center statue is Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846). The left statue is Wisdom. The right statue Prudence holds a mirror and serpent

Anchor 1 ▼ Papal Altar Date: 590s (Altar of St. Gregory the Great); 1120s (Altar of Pope Callistus II); 1594 (Altar of Pope Clement VIII) • The papal altar is directly above the tomb of St. Peter, the apostle of Jesus. Many sources point to St. Peter being buried here on Vatican Hill in the 60s • The papal altar that is visible is that of Pope Clement VIII. For the new St. Peter's he had the old altars of St. Gregory the Great and Pope Calliustus enclosed within his altar ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Chapel of the Relics of the Passion

Anchor 1 ▼ Grazioli Lante della Rovere Chapel Artist: Pietro Berrettini (Pietro da Cortona) Date: 1651 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Fabio and Ippolito De Amicis

Anchor 1 ▼ Portico Date: 1700s • The relief is the Beheading of John the Baptist. The story can be found in the Bible in Matthew 14:6-12 and Mark 6:17-29 • These upper reliefs are all scenes from the life of John the Baptist ▶

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of the Relics • At the bottom center is the supposed imprints of Jesus' feet from the "Domine, quo vadis?" post-gospel story. As Peter was leaving Rome in order to avoid being killed, Jesus appeared on the road. Peter asked him "Lord, where are you going?" to which Jesus replied, "I go to be crucified a second time." Peter then returned to Rome. The location where this is to have taken place is about a mile north from here at the Quo Vadis church

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Bernard and St. Cesarius

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ Ceiling • The coffered ceiling includes the coats of arms of Pope Pius VII (1800-1823), Pope Leo XII (1823-1829), Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830), Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846), and that of the basilica which is an arm grasping a sword. These were the four Popes from the time of the fire until the reconsecration of the transept

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Pendentives Artist: Baciccia Date: 1675-1676 • The pendentive is Doctors of the Western Church. The pendentives were Baciccia's second work in the church • Below each pendentive is the Farnese coat of arms

Anchor 1 ▼ Caffarelli Chapel Artist: Unknown Date: 1600s • The painting in the center of the lunette is St. Dominic • The paintings on each side of the lunette are Angels (1600s) by an unknown artist ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ Capranica Chapel ▲ ▶

Anchor 1 S. Maria Maggiore Traditional date: 352 ca. under Pope Liberius (352-366) Current church: 432 ca. under Pope Celestine I (422-432) and Pope Sixtus III (432-440) Apse renovation: 1295 by Iacopo Toriti under Pope Nicholas IV (1288-1292) Rear facade renovation: 1673 by Carlo Rainaldi under Pope Clement X (1670-1676 Interior renovation: 1750 by Ferdinando Fuga under Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) • In 352, Mary was said to have appeared to the patrician Giovanni in a dream to indicate a miraculous snowfall on a hill where he was to build a church. He went to tell Pope Liberius of his dream but Mary had also appeared to him and said to look for snow on the Esquiline hill. After finding snow there they built the Basilica Liberiana. This is where S. Maria Maggiore now stands. Although this story is not documented until medieval times, there is mention of a Basilica Liberiana at the time of Pope Damasus I (366-384) • After the Council of Ephesus (431) affirmed Mary as Mother of God (Theotokos) against Nestorius (451 d.), Pope Celestine I (422-432) and Pope Sixtus III (432-440) built this church dedicated to Mary. Because it was the first church in the world dedicated to her, it eventually became known as St. Mary Major

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ S. Cesareo de' Appia •