Popes and their associates
Pope Alexander I (? – 116?) – a holy shepherd of the holy water
Pope Alexander VI (1431–1503) – an ambitious strategist with a great heart for women
Pope Alexander VII (1599–1667) – a great constructor with a lead coffin in his bedroom
Pope Alexander VIII (1610–1691), Pietro Vito Ottoboni – a profligate enthusiast of old books
Pope Benedict XIV (1675–1758) – modernizer, reformer, a fierce enemy of Jews and Freemasons
Pope Boniface VIII (1235?–1303), Benedetto Caetani – pope from the eighth circle of hell
Pope Celestine I (?–432) – philosopher striving for the divinity of the mother of Jesus
Pope Damasus I (approx. 305–384) – the one who changed the face of the Roman Church forever
Pope Felix III (Felix II) (?–492) – a saintly, uncompromising and strict pope
Pope Formosus (?816–896) – meaning, how to posthumously become a martyr
Pope Gelasius I (?–496) – meaning Christ’s first Vicar on Earth
Pope Gregory I the Great (approx. 540–604) – a monk by conviction, who changed the face of the Church for centuries
Pope Gregory XIII (1502–1585) – a tireless counter-reformer and an efficient reformer of the calendar
Pope Gregory XIV (1535–1591) – pious, modest, and lacking in will
Pope Gregory XV (1554–1623) – a sickly and phlegmatic protector of the Jesuits
Pope Hilarius (?–468) – a generous donor and a defender of orthodoxy
Pope Hippolytus (approx. 170–235) – an overzealous saintly rigorist
Pope Honorius III (1150–1227) – a significant Church strategist and an uncompromising ruler
Pope Innocent I (? – 417) – a charismatic leader of the Church in times of chaos and uncertainty
Pope Innocent III (1160–1216) – the first Vicar of Christ on Earth
Pope Innocent VIII (1432–1492) – sickly, yet resourceful protector of his own children
Pope Innocent XI (1611–1689) – a strict reformer, moralist and subduer of art
Pope Innocent XII (1615–1700) – an exemplary shepherd and a protector of castrates
Pope John XII (?937–964) – meaning the one who was mortally wounded by the devil in the bed of a married woman
Pope Julius II (1443–1513) – a valiant ruler, courageous politician and a great protector of art
Pope Julius III (1487–1555) – a dream about the power of ...a family
Pope Callixtus III (1378–1458) – a disliked aesthetic from the Pyrenean Peninsula
Pope Clement IX (1600–1669) – a librettist and humanist devoted to God
Pope Clement VII (1478–1534) – a powerless politician and a firm protector of artists
Pope Clement VIII (1536–1605) – an enemy of nudity, a pious and kind despot
Pope Clement X (1590–1676) – a humble pope with an ambitious nepot
Pope Leo I the Great (400?–461) – defender of Rome and the man behind the power of the Church
Pope Leo X (1475–1521) – a generous patron of art and an enthusiast of parties and feasts
Pope Nicholas V (1397–1455) – the one, who made art into a foundation of faith
Pope Paschal I (?–824) – a collector of relics and a self-admirer
Pope Paul II (1417–1471) – an enthusiast of carnival parties
Pope Paul III (1468–1549) – an uncompromising patron of artists and his own family
Pope Paul V (1552–1621) – a generous funder and a foresighted city manager
Pope Pelagius II (?–590) – a protector of the needy and of Gregory the Great
Pope Pius II (1405–1464) – a complete humanist on St. Peter’s throne
Pope Pius XII (1876–1958) – a silent pontifex maximus
Pope Sergius III (approx. 870–911) – meaning „ the slave of every vice”
Pope Stephen VI (? – 897) – a story of the battle between the pope and a cadaver
Pope Sixtus III (390–440) – a great constructor of Christian Rome
Pope Sixtus IV (1414–1484) – a man of Renaissance and the creator of a new Rome
Pope Sixtus V (1521–1590) – the bane of bandits and womanizers
Pope Sylvester (? -335) – a marginal figure, yet a saint
Pope Symmachus (? – 514) – a controversial but unrelenting shepherd
Pope Simplicius (? – 483) – a bishop of Rome on the border of two eras
Pope Theodore I (?–649) – a pope who brought the dead to Rome
Pope Urban I (? – 230) – the beginning of the historical policy of the Church
Pope Urban VIII (1568–1644) – pontifex maximus of the Baroque art
The Vestal Virgin Tuccia – between virtue and downfall, meaning the story of an unwanted work
In February 1743 the famous and valued at European courts Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini came to the Eternal City and opened up a workshop near the Palazzo Barberini, the center of artistic life of the then Rome (Vicolo della Catena). In his atelier, he not only worked on a new work but also hosted important guests, who came there only to see the virtuosity and bravado of his new artistic creation. And this time it was the figure of a veiled woman.
See moreChurch of Sant’ Apollinare – a church „with a past”
This little-known and not particularly distinguishable church had only become famous fairly recently. The crowds shouting and protesting in front of its façade had attracted attention to it, due to an issue that was rather shameful for the church, we may even say disgraceful. There was renewed discussion about the ever-present friendship between the Tiara and the criminal world, as well as the shady businesses and shady dealings of the people of the Church. Presently the church is a basilica minor a title which it acquired in 1984 thanks to Pope John Paul II. It was also during his pont...
See moreFontane on Piazza Farnese – ancient baths in the service of the Farnese family
In front of the monumental palace of the Farnese family, there is a square (Piazza Farnese) with two identical fountains on the sides. From each, the water flows in a gentle manner. Yet in the past, which is testified to by old drawings, these were veritable cascades – the steams from the fountains soared upwards and with great impact fell into the upper basins, while the incoming excess water, as a thick curtain descended into the basins below.
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