Churches and chapels

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San Giovanni in Laterano Baptistery – a water-filled cradle of Christianity

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Carafa Chapel – a place of Renaissance in every inch

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Cerasi Chapel – a clash of two artistic personalities

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Chigi Chapel – a treasury of esthetic sensations and religious emotions

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Contarelli Chapel – a place, where the surprised Matthew finds his path of life

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Del Monte Chapel – a stylistically balanced and artistically reserved place

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Cardinal Bessarion’s Chapel – a posthumous politically-religious message

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Chapel of Martyrdom of St. Peter (Tempietto) – an antique brought back to life

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The Pieta Chapel (Cappella della Pietà) in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a breath of fresh air of Dutch art

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Polet Chapel – a monument to the counter-reformation virtues of a French wine merchant

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The Rospigliosi-Pallavicini Chapel – the posthumous chord of a great Roman dynasty

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Church of Dio Padre Misericordioso – a jewel of contemporary architecture in a sea of bleak apartment buildings

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Church of Il Gesù – modesty transformed into lavishness, meaning the stunning salon of the Jesuits

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Church of Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, meaning, the beginning of a new era of sacral architecture

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Church of San Carlo al Corso – grandeur and splendor for an advocate of poverty

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Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane – built out of hope and disappointment

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Church of San Giacomo in Augusta – a pilgrim church for the body and the spirit

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Church of San Girolamo dei Croati – here, where Jerome debates and preaches

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Church of San Lorenzo fuori le mura – a pilgrim basilica of admirable beauty

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Church of San Lorenzo in Fonte – a place of imprisonment and a miraculous conversion

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Church of San Lorenzo in Lucina – where Christ, joyfully floats up into the heavens

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Church of San Lorenzo in Miranda – a saint deacon in a pagan temple

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Church of San Lorenzo in Piscibus – deserted and modernized, yet moving

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Church of San Marcello al Corso – a church filled with beautiful tombstones

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Church of San Marco – where Venetians left their artistic mark

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Church of San Nicola da Tolentino – place, where Augustinians gave out their breads

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Church of San Nicola in Carcere – a church erected on a pagan cult site

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Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a place of artistic and religious contemplation

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Church of San Pietro in Vincoli – a pilgrimage to miraculous chains and a magnificent Moses

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Church of San Rocco – a church of the poor, the sick and the discarded

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Church of San Saba – a place filled with the spirit of the Middle Ages

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Church of San Stefano Protomartire – following in the footsteps of the cult of St. Stephen in Rome

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Church San Stefano Rotondo – a House of God filled with light and suffering

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Church of San Vitale – early Christianity and Jesuit propaganda at the busy via Nazionale

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Church of Sant’Agata dei Goti – a place of heretical services

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Church of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura – a spiritual idyll on the outskirts of the city

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Church of Sant’Agnese in Agone – a theatre of the senses and a mausoleum of memory

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Church of Sant’Andrea al Quirinale – the greatest construction of the ingenious Bernini

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Church of Sant’Andrea Catabarbara (nonexistent) – a valuable gift from a barbarian chieftain

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Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle – a foundation full of splendor and elegance

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Church of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte – where posthumously Bernini struggles with Borromini

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Church of Sant’Ignazio di Loyola – an area of false impressions and optical illusions

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Church of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza – refined evidence of architectural genius

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Church of Santa Balbina – a breath of antiquity far away from tourist routes

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Church of Santa Bibiana – an oasis of art in the urban jungle

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Church of Santa Caterina da Siena a Magnanapoli – a breath of Bernini’s art

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Church Santa Cecilia – early Middle Ages in a Baroque and rococo sauce

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Church of Santa Constanza (the mausoleum of Constantina) – a little known pearl of early Christian art

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Church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli – a church welcoming and guarding pilgrims

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Church of Santa Maria del Popolo – a treasury of art and a mausoleum of family pride

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Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria – Baroque art on the move

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Church of Santa Maria di Loreto – paying a visit to the beautiful martyrs

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Church of Santa Maria in Aquiro – following the imitators and continuators of Caravaggio

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Church of Santa Maria in Cappella – the Middle Ages restored anew

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Church of Santa Maria in Domnica – a place, where the Virgin Mary is held by her foot

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Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato – the final resting place of two popes of famous reputation

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Church of Santa Maria in Montesanto – the guardian of a square, an elegant, harmonious and balanced church

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Church of Santa Maria Portea Paradisi – a place reminiscent of a gate to paradise

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Church of Santa Prisca – a church with a pagan underground and a fascinating Christian patron

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Church of Santa Pudenziana – an encounter with the art of late antiquity

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Church of Santa Sabina – beauty created out of stone, light and prayer

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Church of Santi Cosma e Damiano – famous for its mosaics and saint doctors

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Church of Santi Quattro Coronati – where, a mystic aura of the Middle Ages prevails

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Church of Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria – an emotional theatre of death in a church interior

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San Silvestro Oratory – a propaganda leaflet, or a treatise on political harmony?

Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

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Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years

When wandering the museum rooms of the Roman Palazzo Massimo we reach this place, we can be under the impression that we are surrounded by ancient gods and heroes, and each of them wants to attract our attention, stop us, and tell us their own story. We find ourselves among snow-white statues, which like actors play roles that only they are aware of. We can look at them from all sides, and admire their beautiful bodies and elegant gestures captured in stone. It is here that we will see the crouching Aphrodite as if surprised by our coming. Her face is only partially preserved. She is also miss...

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

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Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated

Yes, miracles do happen, since that is what we can call the event that occurred over twenty years ago thanks to, two Italian art historians. In the sacristy of the Church of San Vincenzo Martire in the provincial town of Bassano Romano, seventy-two kilometers from Rome, they discovered something, which caused a veritable euphoria – a statue that had until then been considered the work of an unknown Baroque sculptor, turned out to be the forgotten work of Michelangelo.

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

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The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background

The married couple of Mary and Joseph lean over their son in pious adoration, Mary’s aunt – Elizabeth (also a young mother) – is kneeling, holding her son John, who in the future will be given the nickname “the Baptist” and at the same time gently embraces her tiny relative – Jesus. He, with one hand, blesses his distant cousin, and with the other carefully touches the dove, that John is handing to him. The group is accompanied by an angel standing in the background, however, the viewer's eye focuses on the crib found in the foreground. It aroused such admir...

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