Churches and chapels

Churches and chapels

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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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

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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’ Apollinare – a church „with a past”

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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?

Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender

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Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender

The figure of the Hermaphrodite stimulated the imagination of the people of Antiquity in a particular way. A being of two genders – both female and male – seemed privileged exceptional, and completely ideal, however, it also aroused ambivalent feelings and suspicion. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that a figure with male genitalia and female breasts garnered a lot of attention both in literature as well as in the visual arts. When it comes to the latter, the favored topic (although not the only one), was a sleeping Hermaphrodite. This is how he is depicted, stretched on b...

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Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque

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Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque

Femme fatale is associated with painting and literature of the XIX century – with women who devoured the hearts of men, cold-blooded demons of sex who with premeditation led men to their downfall. However, beautiful, erotic, attractive, but at the same time ruthless and sophisticated women have always fascinated artists. We can find them in ancient literature and mythology, as well as in the Old and New Testaments. We can also see them in the painting creations of Caravaggio and his successors because it was exactly in the XVII century when Salome, Judith, and Herodias became fashionable...

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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

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Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated

Numerous posthumous chapels, which we can see during a pilgrimage through Roman churches are generally filled with decorations and works of art. They arouse our respect, and approval, and let our thoughts linger on the grandeur and significance of the family, but above all their sense of art. It is quite seldom that we think about them in purely practical categories, not to say mercantile. It is a rare situation indeed that we can say that the main motive of their creation was not only the desire to immortalize one’s fame, but also the prestige of future, yet unborn successors of the fam...

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