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Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Corsini Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Easter Candlestick Artist: Nicolaus de Angelo; Petro Bassaletto Date: 1170 • The scenes on the candlestick are of Jesus' suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension as well as of various animals. Jesus is clothed in a tunic which was an iconographic tradition that was falling out of favor at the time • The base and top may have been reused from an older candlestick. It is about 18 feet in height • At the base the inscription reads: "I Nicolaus de Angelo with Petro Bassaletto produced this work."

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Sacred Heart Date: Mosaic copy • The mosaic is Sacred Heart Appears to St. Margaret Mary. This is the vision St. Margaret Mary had of Jesus' Sacred Heart on December 27, 1673. St. Margaret Mary was canonized in 1920

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Canons' Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Vestibule Artist: School of Andrea Bregno Date: 1488 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Cinzio and Marcello Rustici • Before this became the vestibule it was the family chapel of the Rustici family

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of the Holy Trinity Artist: Durante Alberti • The lunette is Abraham Visited by Three Angels • The pendentives have putti ▲ ◀

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Niches Artist: Allegretti; Fabi-Altini; Gallori; Maccagnani Date: 1882 • This statue is of the apostle St. Thomas • The statues of the ten apostles that are found in the niches were created by various artists. The statues of Peter and Paul are under the main arch

Anchor 1 ▼ Portico • The panel is the martyrdom of St. Stephen. Acts of the Apostles 7:58 mentions that when the Jews stoned Stephen for being a Christian, they laid their cloaks at the feet of Saul. Saul himself would later become Christian and use the name Paul

Anchor 1 ▼ Monument to Cardinal Sfondrati Date: 1618 Artist: Carlo Maderno • This is a bust of Cardinal Paolo Sfondrati

Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Chapel of the Presentation Artist: Pietro Canonica • The monument is to Pope Benedict XV. As the papacy of Benedict XV (1914-1922) took place during World War I he is shown praying for peace • The relief behind him shows the destruction of war. Mary and the child Jesus are in the upper left.

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Canons' Chapel

Anchor 1 ▼ Presbytery Date: 1254 • This is a marble bench ending in a half lion

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ ▶ Bust of Clement XI Artist: Giuseppe Mazzuoli • Clement XI was Pope from 1700-1721

Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Grazioli Lante della Rovere Chapel Artist: Roman school Date: 1494 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Benedetto Maffei

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of Pius IX

Anchor 1 ▼ Chapel of St. Francis Xavier • The statues are St. Francis Xavier Taken into Heaven ▲ ▶ ◀

Anchor 1 ◀ St. Ignatius Rooms • When the new building was being constructed in 1599-1623, the Jesuits were careful to preserve the original rooms where St. Ignatius lived and died. • In 1605 the rooms were made into chapels. Gradually they were embellished over the years. • In 1991 the rooms were restored to their original state.

Anchor 1 ◀ Presbytery and Choir Artist: Giuseppe Fontana, Francesco Retrosi, Camillo Ceccarini, Francesco Podesti Date: ca. 1857 • The main altar was designed by Fontana in the neo-Gothic style. Podesti painted the Four Cardinal Virtues and the Heads of Angels on the front of the altar • The patron Alessandro de' Medici had the Gothic choir altered in 1536-1540 by Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane to create space for the two tombs of the Medici Popes. In the 1600s the choir was again altered by Giovanni Fontana and then Carlo Maderno. These Baroque additions were later removed in the 1848-1855 with the neo-Gothic renovation ▼

Anchor 1 ▼ Main Altar Artist: Cardinal Francesco Barberini Date: 1676 • The main altar was renovated using materials from the catacombs and another altar Artist: Nicolas Cordier Date: 1600 ca. • The busts are St. Peter (left) and St. Paul (right)

Anchor 1 ▼ ◀ Chapel of St. Gregory the • The pedestal has an epigraph to the Empress St. Helen