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- Aetius (390–454) – the tragic end of „the last Roman”
- Agostino Chigi (1466–1520) – a financial genius, an enthusiast of lavish lifestyle and art
- Alaric (370–411) – revenge of an underestimated ally, meaning a strike at the very heart of the Empire
- Alberic II (909? – 954) – an annihilator of his own mother and a prince of Rome
- Alessandro Algardi (1598–1654) – unappreciated master of the Baroque art
- Andrea Pozzo (1642–1709) – a master of painting illusion
- Andrea Sansovino (approx. 1467–1529) – the one who was able to bring the dead back to life
- Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) – a straightforward recluse in the world of Roman splendor
- Antinous (approx. 110–130 A.D.) – a youth, for whom the emperor lost his mind
- Antiveduto Grammatica (1571–1626) – an expert on heads with an extraordinary name
- Antoniazzo Romano (1430? – 1512?) – an outstanding imitator of great masters
- Antonio Barberini (1607–1671) – one of the three “musketeers” of Urban VIII
- Antonio Canova (1757–1822) – praised by his contemporaries, disregarded by later generations
- Antonio Raggi (1624–1686) – a second pair of hands for master Bernini
- Apollo Belvedere – the greatest work of art from among all the works of antiquity
- Benrnini’s Apollo and Daphne – a rock animated by love
- Arianism – a troublesome for the Church quarrel, over the Son of God
- Armando Brasini (1879–1965) – creator of a bombastically draped architecture
- Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1653) – an unwomanly painter, humiliated and forgotten for centuries
- Attila (approx. 400–453) – divine whip and the nemesis of Rome, a figure between myth and reality
- Aventine Hill – a place of peace, harmony and spiritual enrichment
- Baciccio (1639–1709) – the creator of heaven and hell on Earth
- San Giovanni in Laterano Baptistery – a water-filled cradle of Christianity
- Barberini – a recipe for immortality
- Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511–1592) – the beginnings of an outstanding career of a great Italian Mannerist
- Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599) – a patricide absolved by Romans, commemorated by the city
- Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) – successor of emperors; a charismatic and adored leader
- The Battle of Milvian Bridge – a clash between good and evil, or was it?
- Bronzino (1503–1572) – subtle, refined, and mysterious
- Simon Vouet’s Buona Ventura – the lamentable effects of palm reading
- Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphilj (1622–1666) – an arthritis-filled expiation of the papal nephew
- Camillo Rusconi (1658–1728) – a little known genius of the turn of the centuries
- Campo de’Fiori – a field full of flowers, bloodbaths, and market stalls
- Caravaggio (1571–1610) - a subtle interpreter of the Bible and a common criminal
- Carlo Maderno (1556–1629) – a sought-after, hard-working and talented architect
- Carlo Maratti (Maratta) (1625–1713) – an outstanding portraitist and a father of an equally outstanding daughter
- Carlo Rainaldi (1611–1691) – an architect with a love for music
- Carlo Saraceni (1579–1620) – an artist somewhere between verismo and idealism
- Casina of Cardinal Bessarion – a summer house from the Renaissance
- 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
- Cesare Borgia (1476–1507) – papal offspring whom the whole world feared
- Emperor Antoninus Pius (86–161) – a god-fearing, reasonable and just host
- Emperor Domitian (51–96) - a great constructor and a despot hated by the Senate
- Emperor Hadrian (76–138) – a traveler and an admirer of Greek culture
- Emperor Honorius (384–423) – the one, who allowed Rome to be plundered
- Emperor Caracalla (188–217) – a brutal madman or a victim of propaganda?
- Emperor Commodus (161–192) – an unfortunate son of a great father
- Cesarz Konstantyn Wielki – wybitny strateg i pierwszy chrześcijański władca
- Emperor Maxentius (278–312) – an oppressor or a victim of a black legend?
- Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121–180)– a philosopher on the imperial throne
- Emperor Nerva (30–98) – a reasonable, gentle and wise emperor
- Emperor Romulus Augustulus (approx. 463–ok. 536) – the last emperor of the Western Empire and….nothing more
- Emperor Septimius Severus (145–211) – the one, who made the army into a leading force in the empire
- Emperor Theodosius the Great (347–395) – the one, who turned imperium Romanum into imperium Christianum
- Emperor Trajan (53–117) – the ideal Roman ruler – courageous, generous and on good terms with the Senate
- Emperor Titus (39–81) – the conqueror of Jerusalem and lover of Berenice
- Emperor Velentinian III (419–455) – the pathetic mutiny of a marginalized ruler
- Empress Domitia Longina (53?–128?) – respected and condemned, the fate of the wife of the last Flavian
- Helena – from an innkeeper to a saint, meaning how legends are made
- Empress Julia Domna (150/160? – 217) – an ambitious ruler and an unhappy mother
- Chigi – the ups and downs of a powerful family
- Caravaggio’s Young Sick Bacchus – an artist in the guise or perhaps something much more?
- Circus Maximus (antique hippodrome) – a favorite place of ancient Romans – races, bets and lotteries
- Città Universitaria – the pride of Fascists: between academic monumentalism and rationalism
- Cosimo Fancelli (1618–1688), a great, but second-tier master of the Roman Baroque
- Raphael’s Woman with a Unicorn - an image of a virgin marked by virtue
- Daniele da Volterra (1509–1566) – sentenced to many years of ridicule
- Bernini’s David – a sculpture testifying to the power of faith and humility
- Dawid z głową Goliata – przejmujące wołanie o pomoc boskich i ziemskich sił
- Dirck van Baburen (approx. 1592/93–1624) – a short, intense life of a Caravaggionist from the North
- 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
- Domenichino (1581–1641), the Roman rise and Neapolitan fall of little Dominic
- Domenico Fontana (1543–1607) – an exceptional architect of an entrepreneurial pope
- Domenico Guidi (1625–1701) – meaning Bernini in the French style
- Donation of Constantine – one of the greatest forgeries in the history of the world
- Donato Bramante (1444 –1514) – a famous wrecker, who changed the face of Rome
- The Theodosian dynasty (379–455) – thoroughly Christian, yet marginalized and weak
- Dzielnica czerwonych latarni – sekretne życie Wiecznego Miasta
- The Edict of Milan (313 A.D.) – a document not so new or breakthrough
- Bernini’s The Ecstasy of St. Teresa – an anthem on the subject of bodily union with God
- Ercole Ferrata (1610–1686) – an imitator of extraordinary talent
- Farnese - the triumph of nepotism
- Ferdinando I de’ Medici (1549–1609) – a lover of antiquity, who avoided papal disfavor
- Fillide Melandroni (1581–1618) – niejednoznaczny portret znanej rzymskiej kurtyzany
- 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 Mascherone at via Giulia – poetic beauty enchanted in stone
- 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
- Fontane on Piazza Farnese – ancient baths in the service of the Farnese family
- Foro Italico – an enclave of the cult of Mussolini and his empire
- Forum of Augustus (Forum Augustum) – a complex in his own honor and that of religion
- Forum Boarium – an ancient place of trade and cult
- Forum of Caesar (Forum Iulium) – discreet ambitions of a dictator, meaning a square in his own honor
- Forum of Nerva – an unfinished work of a condemned emperor
- Francesco Barberini (1597–1679) – papal nepot, admirer of books and art, defender of Galileo
- Francesco Borromini (1599–1667) – a distrustful melancholic and an extravagant architect
- Francesco Cavallini (1640–1703) – a sculptor of garlands and swaying saints
- Francesco Maria del Monte (1549–1626) – a cardinal full of passion for alchemy, music and painting
- Francesco Mochi (1580–1654) – ousted, forgotten, disconsolate
- Gaul Killing Himself and his Wife – meaning, praise of an honorable suicidal death
- Galileo (1564–1642) – the one who dared to ridicule the pope
- Galla Placidia (390–450) – an exceptional woman, worth as much as several tons of grain
- Genseric (approx. 390–477) – a Vandal, who brought Rome to its knees
- Gerrit (Gerard) van Honthorst (1590–1656) – a restrained nocturnal painter
- Giacomo della Porta (1533–1602), an author of Roman fountains and the most famous façade in the history of art
- Giovanni (Gian) Lorenzo Bernini (1599–1680) – Impulsive, arrogant and ingenious favorite of the popes
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) – a long life after death of the martyr of defiant thought
- Giovanni Battista Maini (1690–1752) – elegance of late Baroque
- Giovanni Lanfranco (1582–1647) – painter of the Church triumphant
- Giulia Farnese Orsini – black-eyed ad black-haired papal mistress
- Giuliano Finelli (1602–1653) – a sculptor of lace, leaves and collars, but also more
- Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640) – in the past popular, today a forgotten favorite of the popes
- Laocoön Group – the dramatic story of one arm and its lack
- Guercino (1591–1666) – short career of the Pope’s chosen one in Rome
- Guido Reni (1575–1642) – a gambler with subtle manners
- Gwardia Szwajcarska – najstarsza i najmniejsza armia świata
- Bernini’s Habakkuk and the Angel, meaning the story of a mysterious journey into the lion’s den
- Hadrianeum (Hadrian’s temple) – the spirit of the divine Hadrian in a temple of money
- Hercules – a fearless but rather dull protector of Rome
- Simon Vouet’s Herodias with the Head of St. John the Baptist – femme fatale of the Baroque
- Pietro da Cortona’s The Story of Aeneas – meaning where the pope searched for his roots
- Honoria (418–455?) – an emancipator or a tool of political calculations?
- Imperia Cognati - the most famous courtesan of Renaissance Rome
- Raphael’s Isaiah – how one great artist imitated another
- Jacopo Sansovino (1486–1570) – unappreciated in Rome, famous in Venice
- Bronzino’s John the Baptist – between cold eroticism and refined devotion
- Caravaggio’s St. John the Baptist – a work of art, sacrilege, or child pornography?
- Caravaggio’s Judith and Holofernes – a refined mixture of violence and desire
- 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 del Monte di Pietà – a bombastic symbol of the struggle against usury
- Cardinal Bessarion’s Chapel – a posthumous politically-religious message
- Chapel of Martyrdom of St. Peter (Tempietto) – an antique brought back to life
- The Pieta Chapel (Cappella della Pietà) in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio – a breath of fresh air of Dutch art
- 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
- Spada Chapel – ancestors, meaning capital which cannot be underestimated
- Chapel of Saint Hyacintha Marescotti – a place where the senses struggle against virtue
- Cardinal Bernardino Spada (1594–1661) – a dream about the grandeur of his own family
- Cardinal Bessarion (1403?–1473) – the one who wanted to save Constantinople
- Cardinal Flavio Chigi (1631–1693) – a true dandy and a Roman trendsetter
- Cardinal Innocenzo Ciocchi del Monte (1532–1577) – the pope’s favorite with criminal inclinations
- Cardinal Paolo Camillo Sfondrati (1560–1618) – chasing sainthood
- Charles Borromeo (1538–1584) – an extraordinary nepot, critic and saint of the Church
- Catacombs of St. Agnes – burial in the shadow of a famous martyr
- 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
- Van Honthorst’s The Concert – singing together or perhaps a peregrination of the prodigal son?
- Constantina – an imperial daughter and an enigmatic saint
- 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’ Apollinare – a church „with a past”
- 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
- Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) – a significant, yet cumbersome papal guest
- The Temptation of St. Francis – a lesson in the taming of the senses
- Square Colosseum, meaning an icon of Italian architecture – between propaganda and magic
- Raphael’s Fornarina – a mysterious love interest or perhaps…
- Antoniazzo Romano’s Legend of the True Cross – miraculousness told in a Renaissance way
- Liutprand of Cremona (920? – 972?) – a vicious, biased and partial chronicler
- Ludovico Ludovisi (1595–1632) – lover of Antiquity and an extremely bright papal nepot
- Luigi Moretti (1907–1973) – a rationalist, Fascist and postmodern architect
- Domenichino’s The Hunt of Diana – a painting about spying and its unfortunate results
- 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
- 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
- Jacopo Sansovino’s Madonna del Parto – between a saint and a maid
- Madonna delle mani – an indecent work, damaged and found anew
- Caravaggio’s Madonna of Loreto - the sanctity of dirty, coarse feet
- Andrea Sansovino’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – a work praised by poets
- Carlo Saraceni’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – an everyday life scene and… a dove
- Giovanni Lanfranco’s Apparition of the Virgin to St. Lawrence – a thematic painting yet not bereft of artistry
- Bronzino’s Madonna with Child, St. John the Baptist and St. Anne – meaning a song of love sentenced to suffering
- Caravaggio’s Madonna and Child with St. Anne – a work despite and against itself
- Small Aventine – in search of ancient and early Christian Rome
- Marcella (approx. 325–410) – a curious erudite from Aventine Hill
- Marcello Piacentini (1881–1960) – praised and criticized creator of Fascist Rome
- Maria Clementina Sobieska (1701–1735) between reality and a dream
- Magdalene Fainting – a bold act (between mystical rapture and sexual ecstasy
- Marozia (892? – 936?) – „beautiful as a goddess and fiery as a wench”
- March on Rome, meaning the political miracle of 28 October, 1922
- 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
- Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of St. Matthew – death among onlookers and terrified passersby
- Caravaggio’s The Crucifixion of St. Peter – a painting on the banality of evil
- Melozzo da Forlì (1438–1494) – the one who introduced the delicate touch of Renaissance to Rome
- Michelangelo (1475–1564), a painter by force – divine, yet miserable
- Giovanni Baglioni’s Heavenly Love and Earthly Love – a virtue in the struggle against sin
- Mithraism, Mithra, mithraeum – a mystery religion of great popularity
- Michelangelo’s Moses – the remains of a tragic work
- Monophysitism – meaning the disintegration of Christian unity
- Mozaiki w absydzie bazyliki San Giovanni in Laterano – czyli jak wygląda niebo
- Mosaics in the Church of Santa Pudenziana – how the Good Shepherd became a lawgiver
- Melozzo da Forlì’s Musical angels – Christ among songs, music and dance
- Nadzy herosi czy bezskrzydli aniołowie – zagadkowi młodzieńcy ze sklepienia Kaplicy Sykstyńskiej
- Michelangelo’s Nude Christ – miraculously duplicated
- Caravaggio’s Narcissus at the Source – a tragedy of unfulfilled love, or perhaps a story about the essence of art
- Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul – meaning how Saul became Paul
- Nepotism – a sanctified system proven and particularly effective
- The Incredulity of St. Thomas– and how strong is your faith?
- 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
- Mussolini Obelisk – a monument of national amnesia
- Vaticano Obelisk – a granite witness to history
- Odoacer (433–493) – the fall of the empire, meaning how an intelligent illiterate became a Roman king
- Olimpia Maidalchini (1591–1657) – a very entrepreneurial papal sister-in-law
- The Altar of Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae) – a camouflaged monument of private glory
- Onorio Longhi (1568–1619) – a vagabond architect
- Domenico Guidi’s The Lamentation – dramatic pathos, a throng of people, and movement
- San Silvestro Oratory – a propaganda leaflet, or a treatise on political harmony?
- Orazio Borgianni (1574–1616) – a melancholic with intellectual ambitions and an explosive character
- Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639) – an intimate realist prone to rowdiness
- Domenichino’s The Last Communion of St. Jerome – a work about the superiority of communion under one kind
- 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
- 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
- Papież Celestyn V (1210? – 1296) – pontyfikat w cieniu abdykacji
- 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 I (?–638), a fallible pontifex maximus, in addition to being a heretic
- 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 X (1574–1655) – a modest brother-in-law of a greedy popess
- 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
- Papież Mikołaj IV (1227–1292) – papież średniowiecznych misji
- 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
- Pasquino – snide, mean and still today irreplaceable
- Paula of Rome (347–404) – an example of womanly virtues
- Pauline Borghese (1780–1825) – a French provocateur in the papal chapel
- Antonio Canova’s Pauline Borghese as the Venus Victrix – remember me like this for ages
- Perspective Gallery of Palazzo Spada – fiction and reality, meaning architectural games with the senses
- Piazza Augusto Imperatore – in the service of historical policy
- Piazza del Popolo – the calling card of the city: a prestigious, elegant and representative location
- Piazza della Madonna dei Monti – a place not for tourists, picturesque and lively
- Piazza della Rotonda – the tribulation of popes, a square cleaned for centuries
- Piazza di San Pietro – an ingenious idea of two visionaries
- Piazza Farnese – a place enthralling at night and imposing during the day
- Piazza Navona – from a stadium to a representative salon of the pope
- Piazza Venezia – the vibrant heart of Rome
- Pierre Le Gros (1666–1719) – the dramatically halted magnificent Roman career
- Michelangelo’s Pietà – an astonishing story of silent suffering
- Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) – the father of yellow journalism and literary pornography
- Pietro Bracci (1700–1773) – a master of elegance and theatrical gestures
- Pietro da Cortona (1596–1669) – a virtuoso of glories, triumphs and apotheoses of all kinds
- Pinturicchio (1454–1513) – a creator of a simple, filled with grace storylines
- Platina (Bartolomeo Sacchi) (1421–1481) – humanist, rebel, courtier
- Guercino’s The Funeral of St. Petronilla – a difficult topic, masterfully solved
- Pokutująca Maria Magdalena Charlesa Mellina – między atrakcyjnym mitem a nagą prawdą
- Guido Reni’s The Penitent Magdalene – between sinful charm and heavenly vision
- 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
- Funerary monument of Pope Alexander VII, meaning the triumph of virtue over death
- Funerary Monument of Pope Benedict XIV – the last breath of a grand style
- Funerary monument of Pope Gregory XIII – the memories of the guardian of true faith
- Funerary Monument of Pope Gregory XV – a breath of subtle Jesuit propaganda
- 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
- Pomnik papieża Innocentego X – od marnej śmierci do wiecznej pamięci
- 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
- Pornocracy, meaning the rule of harlots, but was that really the case?
- Porta del Popolo – a city gate filled with history and art
- Portrait of Cardinal Bernardino Spada – a diligent, hard-working, and prudent official
- Velázquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X – a real, perceptive and effective portrait
- Portrait of Pope Clement IX – a subtle image of a delicate pontifex
- Bronzino’s Portrait of Stefano Colonna – a picture-perfect condottiero
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s The Rape of Proserpina, meaning sanctioned rape
- Pietro da Cortona’s Rape of the Sabine Women – all is well that ends well
- Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius – a symbol of imperial harmony and peace
- Ludovica Albertoni – a masterpiece in the shadow of a moral scandal
- Bernini’s Statue of St. Bibiana – meaning how to present a virgin in the moment of bliss
- Stefano Maderno’s Lying St. Cecilia – a miracle or an elaborate mystification?
- Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew – how a sinner becomes the chosen of God
- Raphael’s Fire in the Borgo – a hymn on the subject of more than just antiquity
- Carlo Saraceni’s Transitus Mariae – meaning how the Discalced Carmelites co-created the image of the Most Holy Virgin
- The Transfiguration – the most divine of all Raphael’s works
- Raphael (1483–1520) – the prematurely deceased genius of the Renaissance
- The Triumph of Religion Over Heresy by Pierre Le Gros – meaning a Jesuit theatrum sacrum
- Rospigliosi – a shadow of its former glory
- Sacco di Roma – pohańbienie Rzymu i papieża
- The Hall of Constantine (Stanza di Constantino) – a hymn praising the papacy
- Van Honthorst’s The Beheading of St. John the Baptist – a work immersed in darkness
- Scipione Caffarelli Borghese (1577–1633) – cardinal and papal nepot with truly earthly passions
- Silvia Ruffini (approx. 1475–1561) – a lonely, quiet widow, with a group of a cardinal’s children
- Simon Vouet (1590–1649) – the panache, flair, and richness of the Baroque
- Michelangelo’s Vault of the Sistine Chapel – a masterpiece born out of doubt and suffering
- The Council of Nicaea (325) – where, the Nicene Creed was created
- Sleeping Hermaphrodite – the ever-present third gender
- Stadium of Domitian – Greek-style competition, to the joy of the populace
- Raphael’s Stanzas – meaning how the popes had wanted to live
- Stefano Maderno (c. 1570–1636) – an artist famous for just one statue
- 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
- Saint Agnes (Sant’Agnese) – a favorite of the Romans – an unbroken virgin
- Saint Balbina (Santa Balbina) – patroness of the stuttering and… not only
- Saint Bibiana (Santa Bibiana) – uncompromising Roman girl, whipped to death
- Saint Cecilia (Santa Cecilia) – twice miraculously found and equally miraculously kept in everlasting youth
- Artemisia Gentileschi’s Saint Cecilia Playing the Lute – an autoportrait in the guise of a saint
- Saint Cecilia Distributing Alms to the Poor– a story of the recalcitrant Roman populace
- Carlo Saraceni’s St. Cecilia with an Angel - two musicians
- Saint Eustochium (368–419) – a virgin through and through
- Saint Mary Magdalene – a phantom figure brought to life out of ignorance, self-interest, and ill will
- Saint Petronilla (Santa Petronilla) – a virgin and a betrothed of Christ
- Saint Prisca (Santa Prisca) – three saints for the price of one
- The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, the Young St. John the Baptist, and an Angel – a family meeting with an angel in the background
- Saint Sabina (Santa Sabina) – an enigmatic saint from the Aventine
- Saint Andrew (Sant’Andrea) – holy apostle with a centuries-old visit in the Eternal City
- Saint Jerome (between 331 and 347 – 420) – „Romans hide your daughters because Jerome is coming”
- Caravaggio’s Saint Jerome – the Doctor of the Church as a weapon in the struggle against heretics
- Saint Hippolytus (Sant’Ippolito) – neophyte and a patron of prison guards
- Święty Jan Chrzciciel Caravaggia – znużony efeb czy melancholijny święty?
- Saint Sabbas the Sanctified (San Saba) – an uncompromising Palestinian proponent of Rome
- Saint Stephen (Santo Stefano) – a companion in the cult of St. Lawrence
- Saint Lawrence (San Lorenzo) – a favorite of the Romans; intercessor of those suffering in the fires of hell
- Melozzo da Forlì’s Sixtus IV Appointing Platina as Prefect of the Vatican Library – pope as an earthly ruler and a patron of science
- Cadaver Synod (897) – meaning, an unimaginable papal macabre
- Raphael’s’ The School of Athens– a fancy riddle or an alternative history
- Teatro dell’Opera di Roma – a temple of Italian music
- Theodora the Elder (? – 928?) – a prostitute or a woman of „truly manly strength”?
- Theodoric the Great (441–526) – a barbarian, for whom Romans erected monuments
- Tetrarchy – a utopia of an emperor sick and tired of ruling
- Raphael’s Triumph of Galatea – beauty and the beast in a Renaissance version
- Pietro da Cortona’s Triumph of Divine Providence – family apotheosis, meaning painting to the point of breathlessness
- Trophime Bigot (1597–1650) – a mysterious master of candlelight
- Tullia d’Aragona (1508? – 1556) – the queen of literary salons
- Ukrzyżowanie świętego Piotra – męczeństwo jako akt wypełnienia się woli Bożej
- Dying Gaul – a funeral rhapsody in memory of the Gauls
- The Deliverance of St. Peter– between reality and a vision
- Vanozza Cattanei (1442–1518) – the unofficial wife of the pope and the official mother of his children
- Via dei Fori Imperiali – an axis with political and ideological roots
- Via del Mascherone – a place of prayers, moans, and cries
- Via della Conciliazione – a road to reconciliation, and at the same time the beginning of a new era for the Church
- The Battle for the Statue of Victory – Rome and the birth of a new religious order
- Giovanni Lanfranco’s Venus Playing the Harp – a tribute to music or perhaps to love?
- Wenus Knidyjska – wizerunek skromnej, zawstydzonej hetery
- Crouching Venus – eavesdropped on for the last two thousand years
- Bronzino’s Venus, Cupid, and Satyr – a sublime allegory or a courtly jest?
- The Vestal Virgin Tuccia – between virtue and downfall, meaning the story of an unwanted work
- Victor Emanuel III (1869–1947) – a king rejected and unwanted
- Villa Aldobrandini – a place of respite over the city teeming with life
- 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
- Caravaggio’s Fortune Teller – a painting about the dangers of life and the illusion of art
- Daniele da Volterra’s The Descent from the Cross – a faded shadow of a great work, meaning the aftermath of vandalism
- Caravaggio’s The Entombment of Christ – a perfect work
- Dirck van Baburen’s The Entombment of Christ – catching up with Caravaggio
- Raphael’s The Deposition – a painting of suffering, the fragility of life and an unforgettable loss
- Antoniazzo Romano’s Annunciation – meaning, how the Virgin Mary can miss the most important moment of her life
