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6 Angelo della Navicella
A fragment of Giotto’s beautiful 13th-century mosaic,
salvaged from the old basilica, is now in the Grottoes.
A later copy of the entire mosaic of Jesus and St. Peter
fishing on Lake Tiberias decorates the atrium.

7 St. Peter
This famous 13th-century
statue, now attributed to
Arnolfo di Cambio, was once
thought to be a late Roman
work. Located at the end of the
nave, it is sculpted in bronze
with a delicate filigree halo.

Entrance to
Grottoes The Tabernacle by
Bernini is made of gilt
bronze in the shape
of a temple.
The Porta Santa (Holy Door)
is opened only in Holy Years. The
pope knocks on it with a bronze
Chapel of St. hammer, it is unlocked, and it
Sebastian then remains open throughout
the Holy Year.
Stuart
Monument by
Canova

8 Pietà
This famous marble sculpture was
finished in 1499 when Michelangelo
was only 25. It stands in a chapel to
one side of the nave, protected by
glass since being damaged in 1972.
Filarete
Door
Navicella
Mosaic
Atrium by Carlo
Maderno

1 Tomb of Maria Clementina Sobieski
Near the entrance is Filippo Barigioni’s
sentimentally expressive 18th-century
monument to Maria Clementina, the wife
of James Stuart, the Old Pretender.

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