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Popolo, for example, has two by Rosato Rosati and the many
Renaissance
great paintings by Caravaggio, churches by Bernini’s rival,
The greatest undertaking of the Chigi Chapel designed Borromini. Sant’Agnese in
the Renaissance popes was by Raphael, and a series of Agone and San Carlo alle
the rebuilding of St. Peter’s. 15th-century frescoes by Quattro Fontane are famed
Disagreements on the form Pinturicchio. San Pietro in for the dramatic concave
it should take meant that, Vincoli, besides having the surfaces of their facades, while
although work started in 1506, chains with which St. Peter the complex structure of
it was not completed until was bound in prison, also has Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza makes
well into the 17th century. Michelangelo’s awe-inspiring it one of the miniature master-
Fortunately, this did not prevent statue of Moses, while San pieces of the Baroque.
the building of Michelangelo’s Luigi dei Francesi has three
great dome. As well as working Caravaggios depicting Where to Find the
on St. Peter’s, Michelangelo also St. Matthew and frescoes Churches
provided the Sistine Chapel by Domenichino.
with its magnificent frescoes. Gesù pp110–11
On a completely different Pantheon pp114–15
scale, another key work of Sant’Agnese in Agone p123
Renaissance architecture is Sant’Andrea al Quirinale p163
Bramante’s tiny Tempietto (1499) San Carlo ai Catinari p152
on the Janiculum. Santa Maria San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
p163
della Pace has a Bramante Santa Cecilia in Trastevere p213
cloister, some frescoes by San Clemente pp188–9
Raphael, and a charming Santa Costanza p266
portico by Pietro da Cortona. Interior of Rosati’s dome in San Carlo Santi Cosma e Damiano p88
Also of interest is Michelangelo’s ai Catinari (1620) Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
imaginative use of the great p185
vaults of the Roman Baths of Baroque San Giovanni in Laterano
Diocletian in the church of pp182–3
Santa Maria degli Angeli. The Counter-Reformation Sant’Ignazio di Loyola p108
There are other churches inspired the exuberant, lavish Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza p124
worth visiting for the sake of style of churches such as the San Lorenzo fuori le Mura p267
their outstanding paintings and Gesù and Sant’Ignazio di San Luigi dei Francesi p124
sculptures. Santa Maria del Loyola. The best-loved Santa Maria degli Angeli p164
Santa Maria in Cosmedin p204
examples of Roman Baroque Santa Maria Maggiore pp174–5
are the later works associated Santa Maria della Pace p123
with Bernini, such as the great Santa Maria del Popolo pp140–41
colonnade and baldacchino Santa Maria in Trastevere
he built for St. Peter’s. Of the pp214–15
smaller churches he designed, Santa Maria della Vittoria p257
perhaps the finest is San Paolo fuori le Mura p269
Sant’Andrea al Quirinale, St. Peter’s pp228–31
while Santa Maria della San Pietro in Vincoli p172
Vittoria houses his truly Santa Prassede p173
astonishing Cornaro Chapel Santi Quattro Coronati p187
with its sculpture of the Ecstasy Santa Sabina p206
San Sebastiano p267
of St. Teresa. The late Baroque Sistine Chapel pp242–5
was not all Bernini, however. Tempietto p223
You should also look for Temple of Antoninus and
Michelangelo’s dramatic dome crowning churches such as San Carlo ai Faustina p87
the interior of St. Peter’s Catinari with its beautiful dome

Santa Costanza (4th century) Bramante’s St. Peter’s (1503) Sant’Andrea al Quirinale (1658) Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza (1642)

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