Gabriel da Fonseca
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Gabriel da Fonseca was a Portuguese New Christian physician who worked as Pope Innocent X’s personal physician.
A bust of Fonseca by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, located in San Lorenzo in Lucina
Interior of the San Lorenzo in Lucina
San Lorenzo in Lucina
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The Minor Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina is a Roman Catholic parish, titular church, and minor basilica in central Rome, Italy. The basilica is located in Piazza di San Lorenzo in Lucina in the Ri
Gabriel da Fonseca
…high-ranking Roman Catholic clergymen. He died in Parione in 1668. A bust of Fonseca, sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is located in the basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina. Gabriel da Fonseca was born in Lamego in late February 1586 to Lisbon treasurer Diogo Rodrigues Fonseca and Isabel Gomes. He studied at the University…
Façade of San Lorenzo in Lucina in 2023.
Bust of Gabriel Fonseca by Gian Lorenzo Bernini