Buildings and architectural structures – known and unknown
San Giovanni in Laterano Baptistery – a water-filled cradle of Christianity
Casino dell’Aurora – a pearl of art of an entrepreneurial papal nepot
Casino di Villa Doria Pamphilj – a symbol of social status and a tool of international rivalries
Casino Ludovisi – a cardinal’s idyll on the outskirts of the city
Circus Maximus (antique hippodrome) – a favorite place of ancient Romans – races, bets and lotteries
The Fascist Youth Organization Building by Luigi Moretti – a new architecture for a new era
The Moretti House of Arms – a pearl of modern architecture
Fontana dei Catecumeni – a café under the open sky
Fontana dei Dioscuri – a monument of modern times put together with antique parts
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi – a symbol of greatness of the Catholic Church and the Pamphilj family
Fontana del Mascherone di Santa Sabina – a charming, but undervalued Roman mascaron
Fontana del Moro – African exoticism in the center of the city
Fontana del Nettuno – a story of a water reservoir transformed into an elegant fountain
Fontana del Prigione – but where is the prisoner?
Fontana dell'Acqua Felice (Fontana del Mosè) – a camouflaged papal monument
Fontana dell’Acqua Paola – a monument to the glory of Pope Paul V and the Borghese family
Fontana della Rotonda – a work of papal ambitions and persistence
Fontana della Terrina – from a litter bin to a gigantic soup bowl
Fontana delle Amfore – a picturesque relict of Fascist times
Fontana delle Tartarughe - meaning more haste less speed
Fontana di Marforio – peregrinations of an ancient statue
Fontana di Piazza Colonna – a grand idea and a rather modest implementation
Fontana di Piazza Mastai – an old or a new fountain, here is the question
Fontana di Trevi – a symbol of dolce vita and Rome’s greatest attraction
Fontane di Piazza San Pietro – water fireworks at St. Peter’s Square
Hadrianeum (Hadrian’s temple) – the spirit of the divine Hadrian in a temple of money
Carafa Chapel – a place of Renaissance in every inch
Cerasi Chapel – a clash of two artistic personalities
Chigi Chapel – a treasury of esthetic sensations and religious emotions
Contarelli Chapel – a place, where the surprised Matthew finds his path of life
Del Monte Chapel – a stylistically balanced and artistically reserved place
Chapel of Martyrdom of St. Peter (Tempietto) – an antique brought back to life
Polet Chapel – a monument to the counter-reformation virtues of a French wine merchant
The Rospigliosi-Pallavicini Chapel – the posthumous chord of a great Roman dynasty
Colosseum – an imperial response to a social need
The Column of Marcus Aurelius – a souvenir of a wise, sensible and brave emperor
Column of the Immaculate Conception – an antidote for heresies and mistakes of contemporary times
Bernini’s Colonnade – to strengthen faith, Enlightenment and to convince the infidels
Church of Dio Padre Misericordioso – a jewel of contemporary architecture in a sea of bleak apartment buildings
Church of Il Gesù – modesty transformed into lavishness, meaning the stunning salon of the Jesuits
Church of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, meaning, the beginning of a new era of sacral architecture
Church of San Carlo al Corso – grandeur and splendor for an advocate of poverty
Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane – built out of hope and disappointment
Church of San Giacomo in Augusta – a pilgrim church for the body and the spirit
Church of San Girolamo dei Croati – here, where Jerome debates and preaches
Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura – a pilgrim basilica of admirable beauty
Church of San Lorenzo in Fonte – a place of imprisonment and a miraculous conversion
Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina – where Christ, joyfully floats up into the heavens
Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda – a saint deacon in a pagan temple
Church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus – deserted and modernized, yet moving
Church of San Marcello al Corso – a church filled with beautiful tombstones
Church of San Marco – where Venetians left their artistic mark
Church of San Nicola da Tolentino – place, where Augustinians gave out their breads
Church of San Nicola in Carcere – a church erected on a pagan cult site
Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a place of artistic and religious contemplation
Church of San Pietro in Vincoli – a pilgrimage to miraculous chains and a magnificent Moses
Church of San Rocco – a church of the poor, the sick and the discarded
Church of San Saba – a place filled with the spirit of the Middle Ages
Church of San Stefano Protomartire – following in the footsteps of the cult of St. Stephen in Rome
Church San Stefano Rotondo – a House of God filled with light and suffering
Church of San Vitale – early Christianity and Jesuit propaganda at the busy via Nazionale
Church of Sant’Agata dei Goti – a place of heretical services
Church of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura – a spiritual idyll on the outskirts of the city
Church of Sant’Agnese in Agone – a theatre of the senses and a mausoleum of memory
Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale – the greatest construction of the ingenious Bernini
Church of Sant’Andrea Catabarbara (nonexistent) – a valuable gift from a barbarian chieftain
Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle – a foundation full of splendor and elegance
Church of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte – where posthumously Bernini struggles with Borromini
Church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola – an area of false impressions and optical illusions
Church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza – refined evidence of architectural genius
Church of Santa Balbina – a breath of antiquity far away from tourist routes
Church of Santa Bibiana – an oasis of art in the urban jungle
Church of Santa Caterina da Siena a Magnanapoli – a breath of Bernini’s art
Church Santa Cecilia – early Middle Ages in a Baroque and rococo sauce
Church of Santa Constanza (the mausoleum of Constantina) – a little known pearl of early Christian art
Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli – a church welcoming and guarding pilgrims
Church of Santa Maria del Popolo – a treasury of art and a mausoleum of family pride
Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria – Baroque art on the move
Church of Santa Maria di Loreto – paying a visit to the beautiful martyrs
Church of Santa Maria in Aquiro – following the imitators and continuators of Caravaggio
Church of Santa Maria in Cappella – the Middle Ages restored anew
Church of Santa Maria in Domnica – a place, where the Virgin Mary is held by her foot
Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato – the final resting place of two popes of famous reputation
Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto – the guardian of a square, an elegant, harmonious and balanced church
Church of Santa Maria Portea Paradisi – a place reminiscent of a gate to paradise
Church of Santa Prisca – a church with a pagan underground and a fascinating Christian patron
Church of Santa Pudenziana – an encounter with the art of late antiquity
Church of Santa Sabina – beauty created out of stone, light and prayer
Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano – famous for its mosaics and saint doctors
Church of Santi Quattro Coronati – where, a mystic aura of the Middle Ages prevails
Church of Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria – an emotional theatre of death in a church interior
Square Colosseum, meaning an icon of Italian architecture – between propaganda and magic
Arch of Janus – mysterious structure with four façades
The Arch of the Silversmiths – a place of memory erased
Arch of Constantine – an ancient example of artistic recycling
The Triumphant Arch of Emperor Titus – a commemoration of triumph and defeat engraved in stone
Arch of Septimius Severus – a symbol of Roman expansion and dynastic ambitions
Mausoleum of Empress Helena – meaning how to reconcile Christianity with the cult of the emperor
Mausoleum on Janiculum Hill (Mausoleo Ossario Garibaldino) – the struggle for national heritage
Antinous Obelisk (Pinciano) – pilgrimages of an obelisk of „sinful” provenance
Flaminio Obelisk – a war trophy; the pride of the city, emperor and the pope
Obelisk Macuteo – divine support for the emperor, the pope and the Roman populace
Minerveo Obelisk, meaning the triumph of an elephant over Dominican dogs
The Mussolini Obelisk – a monument of national amnesia
Vaticano Obelisk – a granite witness to history
San Silvestro Oratory – a propaganda leaflet, or a treatise on political harmony?
Palazzetto dello Sport – a little pearl of contemporary architecture
Palazzo Altemps - a refined ambience for a treasury of antique art
Palazzo Altieri – the pride of a papal family
Palazzo Barberini – a monument of papal ambitions, of which the likes Rome had never before seen
Palazzo Doria Pamphilj – a palace famous for its love of art
Palazzo di Firenze – the unloved residence of the de’ Medici family
Palazzo Mattei di Giove – a salon and an open-air museum
Palazzo Pamphilj – a residence of a woman of iron will and untamed ambition
Palazzo Venezia – a residence of popes, ambassadors and Fascists
Pantheon – a structure divine in every inch
The Statue of Giordano Bruno, meaning the ”black ship of Satan” among flowers, grapes and lettuce
Statue of Giuseppe Mazzini – the delayed work of belle époque
Funerary monument of Maria Clementina Sobieska – the joyful smile of a miserable queen
The funerary monument of Pope Alexander VII, meaning the triumph of virtue over death
Antonio Canova’s funerary monument of Pope Clement XIII – death appeased with beauty
Antonio Canova’s funerary monument of Pope Clement XIV – a quiet grief of final parting
Funerary Monument of Pope Leo XI – a modest and politically convincing work
Funerary Monument of the Stuarts – death beautiful until perdition
Ponte Duca d’Aosta – a monument of glory to the Italian soldier
Ponte Flaminio – a bridge between imperial and Fascist Rome
Ponte Rotto – a picturesque ruin from the times of the Republic
Ponte Sant'Angelo – a reminder of the Passion of Christ and a warning for bandits
Ponte Sisto – do not forget to pray and you shall be rewarded
Ponte Vittorio Emanuele II – a bridge glorifying royal virtues
Porta del Popolo – a city gate filled with history and art
The Hall of Constantine (Stanza di Constantino) – a hymn praising the papacy
The Temple of Hercules – an ancient hero on a cattle market
The Temple of Portunus – a residence of gods, harlots and saints, meaning a pearl of antiquity
The Temple of Romulus on Forum Romanum – a great archeological mystery
Temple of Vesta and the House of the Vestals – a luxury of life for the renunciation of life
Teatro dell’Opera di Roma – a temple of Italian music
Villa Farnesina – built with the thought of eternal glory
Villa Giulia – the earthly paradise of Pope Julius III
Villa of Maxentius – the rural residence of an unfortunate ruler
Villa Medici – a Florentine and French enclave on Pincio Hill
Cardinal Paolo Camillo Sfondrati (1560–1618) – chasing sainthood
Cardinal Sfondrati was one of the most influential figures of the Roman Church at the turn of the XVI and XVII centuries. He combined all the good and bad characteristics of this era of increased piousness and severity. Being the papal nepot, for a short while he had the opportunity to achieve everything a cardinal could dream of at that time as far as earthly luxuries, nevertheless he had to be satisfied with a rather lowly function of a presbyter of a church in the poor district of the Trastevere. And it was then that his ambitions exceeded the earthly sphere.
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Pierre Polet desired that his posthumous chapel be decorated with frescoes by Domenichino. There would be nothing extraordinary about this undertaking, had it not been for one of the painted scenes, which surprised and disgusted many of the onlookers. What was it that shook the public of seventeenth-century Rome to such an extent that this painting was on the lips of both the educated elites, as well as simple people? In order to answer this question, we must carefully look at the decorations of the Polet Chapel located in the right nave of the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi.
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At the age of only sixteen, he was ordained as a priest, and at the age of twenty-five, he became a bishop of Cremona, to then become a cardinal at the age of forty-eight. And he owed it all to his aristocratic origins. At the moment of being called to St. Peter's throne, in 1590, cardinal Sfondrati was fifty-six years old. Ten months later he died, to the chagrin of his family, but also many other people who were able to appreciate the virtues of this modest, pious, but also bereft of political ambitions, successor of St. Peter.
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