Santa Maria sopra Minerva
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Santa Maria sopra Minerva is a minor basilica church and one of the major churches of the Dominican order in Rome, Italy. The church's name derives from the fact that the first Christian church struct
Santa Maria sopra Minerva façade by Carlo Maderno
Interior of church
Cloister of the Basilica of Saint Mary of Minerva
The painted ceiling of the nave.
Pope Clement VII
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Pope Clement VII was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed "the most unfortunate of the popes", Clement VII's reign
Santa Maria sopra Minerva
…the Dominican friar Blessed Fra Angelico (c. 1395–1455); and ornate monuments to the Medici popes: Leo X (born Giovanni de Medici, c. 1475–1521) and Clement VII (born Giulio de Medici, c. 1478–1534), designed by Baccio Bandinelli. The Carafa Chapel is the second chapel in the right transept. It was inaugurated…
Portrait by Sebastiano del Piombo, c. 1531
Hanging of Bernardo Baroncelli, Leonardo da Vinci, 1479. Pazzi Conspirator.
Giulio Cardinal de' Medici, left; with his cousin Pope Leo X, center; and Luigi Cardinal de' Rossi, right; by Raphael, 1519
The Transfiguration, by Raphael, 1520. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici