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  • Baptistry - Ceiling | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ Baptistry Artist: Passignano Date: 1608-1610 • The vault is Assumption. The panels are Prophets and Doctors of the Church. The The lunettes are scenes of Mary's life and putti

  • Interior - FL | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ S. Sebastiano

  • Lady Rosary - WR - C | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Capranica Chapel Artist: Giovanni de' Vecchi Date: 1586 • The painting is Stories in the Life of St. Catherine of Siena

  • Sangue - mosaic | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ Chiesa del Preziosissimo Sangue •

  • Gregory XIV - TL | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ Tomb of Gregory XIV

  • GL - 22 Hilary Main | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ Chapel of St. Hilary of Poitiers Artist: Guillaume Courtois Date: 1660 • The altarpiece is St. Hilary of Poitiers. St Hilary (310-367) was bishop of Poitiers and wrote against Arianism

  • Main - BR | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ Interior

  • Lante - Opposite Pillar | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ Lante della Rovere Chapel Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini Date: 1647-1653 • The tomb is Funeral Memorial of Maria Raggi • In exhibiting the face of Maria Raggi, a Dominican blessed, as experiencing the ecstasy of eternal joy, Bernini added a new element to funeral monuments

  • Portico - B Giotto | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ Vault Artist: Giotto Date: 1298 ca • The mosaic is Navicella. This recounts the gospel story of Jesus walking on water and Peter, stepping out after him, loses faith and begins to sink (Mt 14:22-34) • In the bottom right corner by Jesus' feet is the benefactor for the mosaic Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi (1270-1341) • The mosaic was originally in old St. Peter's in the quadriporticus ▲ ▶ ◀

  • St. Nick - Main | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▶ ◀ St. Nicholas of Bari Aedicule

  • GL - 04 Torlonia R | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ◀ Torlonia Chapel Artist: Giuseppe Barba Date: 1829 ca. • The monument is Tomb of Prince Giovanni Torlonia (1775-1829)

  • PandM - Ceiling | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ St. Processus and St. Martinian ▶ ◀

  • Tomb - Bald BL | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 Baldachin Artist: Arnolfo di Cambio Date: 1285 • The corner statue is St. Peter with keys • The center inscription notes that the work was commissioned by the Benedictine abbot Bartholomew in 1285 • Above St. Paul, on the opposite side, is the inscription, "Arnolfo did this work", which is continued above St. Peter, "with his assistant Pietro." This assistant is likely Pietro di Oderisio • To the left of St. Peter, abbot Bartholomew offers the baldachin to St. Paul on the other side of the arch ▶ ◀ ▼

  • GL - Main Interior | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ Nave Artist: Francesco Borromini Date: 1646-1649 • Although the church is much older, the nave you see today is that designed by Borromini at the request of Pope Innocent X (1644-1655) • Five of the ecumenical councils of history (1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, 1512) were held here or at the attached Lateran Palace ▲ ▶ ◀

  • Naro - Left | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ Naro Chapel Artist: Attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini Date: 1634 • The tomb is Funeral Monument of Cardinal Gregorio Naro • The other monuments on the walls are to Naro family members

  • Family - Exhibit C | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▲ ▶ ◀ Holy Family Chapel

  • Sisto - Front R | beggarsrome

    Anchor 1 ▼ ▶ ◀ S. Sisto Vecchio •

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