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416  ROME AND LAZIO

q Santa Maria della older collec-
Vittoria tions. During
the 1990s it
Via XX Settembre 17. Map 3 C2. underwent
Tel 06 42 74 05 71. @ 61, 62, 175, 910. a major
q Repubblica. Open 8:30am–noon,
3:30–6pm daily. reorganization
and now has
Santa Maria della Vittoria is an five branches:
intimate Baroque church with a the Palazzo
lavish, candlelit interior. Inside Altemps (see
the Cornaro chapel is one of p404); the Baths
Bernini’s most ambitious of Diocletian;
sculptures, the Ecstasy of St the Aula
Teresa (1646). The physical Ottagona, the
nature of St Teresa’s ecstasy Crypta; Balbi;
is apparent as she appears and the Palazzo
collapsed on a cloud with her Massimo. In the
mouth half open and eyes latter, exhibits
closed, struck by the arrow of a dating from the One of the finely detailed Quattro Aurighe mosaics on display at the
smiling angel. Past and present 2nd century BC Museo Nazionale Romano Palazzo Massimo
ecclesiastical members of the to the late 4th
Venetian Cornaro family, who century AD are displayed in a mausoleum, built by Pope
commissioned the chapel, series of rooms over three floors. Paschal II for his mother,
sit in boxes as if watching and Highlights include the Quattro Theodora. Her square halo
discussing the scene being Aurighe mosaics from a villa in shows that she was still alive
played out in front of them. northern Rome, the breath- when the mosaic was created.
taking series of frescoes from
Livia’s summer villa, and the r San Pietro in
famous statue of her husband,
the Emperor Augustus. Vincoli
Piazza di San Pietro in Vincoli. Map 3
e Santa Prassede C5. Tel 06 97 84 49 50. @ 75, 85, 117.
q Colosseo. Open 8am–12:30pm,
Via Santa Prassede 9a. Map 4 D4. 3–7pm daily (Oct–Mar: to 6pm). 7
Tel 06 488 24 56. @ 16, 70, 71, 75,
714. q Vittorio Emanuele. Open The church’s name means
7:30am–noon, 4–7pm daily. 7 “St Peter in Chains”, so called
because it houses what are said
The church was founded to be the chains with which
by Pope Paschal II in the 9th St Peter was shackled in the
century and decorated by Mamertine Prison (see p393).
Byzantine artists with the most According to tradition, one set
important glittering mosaics in of chains was sent to Constanti-
Rome. In the apse Christ stands nople by Empress Eudoxia;
Bernini’s Ecstasy of St Teresa (1646) in Santa between Santa Prassede and when it was returned to Rome
Maria della Vittoria her sister, dressed as Byzantine some years later, it miraculously
empresses, among white-robed fused with its partner.
w Museo Nazionale elders, lambs, feather-mop San Pietro is now best known
palms and bright red poppies.
for the Tomb of Julius II, commiss-
Romano Palazzo The Cappella di San Zeno is ioned from Michelangelo by the
Massimo even lovelier, a jewel-box of a pope in 1505. Much to the
artist’s chagrin, Julius soon
Palazzo Massimo, Largo di Villa Peretti 1 became more interested in the
(1 of 5 sites). Map 4 D3. Tel 06 39 96 building of a new St Peter’s and
77 00. @ all routes to Termini. the tomb project was laid to
q Repubblica. Open 9am–7:45pm
Tue–Sun. & ticket valid for all sites. one side. After the pope died in
9 7 = 8 1513, Michelangelo resumed
work on the tomb, but had only
Founded in 1899, the Museo completed the statues of the
Nazionale Romano – one of the Dying Slaves (now found in
world’s leading museums of Paris and Florence) and Moses
Classical art – houses most of when he was called away to
the antiquities found in Rome paint the The Last Judgment in
since 1870, as well as important 9th-century mosaic, Santa Prassede the Sistine Chapel.
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp573–6 and pp596–600

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