CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DEL POPOLO
Church completed in 1477 by many artists including Raphael, Bramante and Bernini.
This church was started at the end of the 11th century. Completed in 1477, many artists, including Raphael, Bramante and Le Bernin, worked on it. The Renaissance façade, from 1472 to 1477, was designed by Baccio Pontelli and Andrea Bregno. Its structure is simple: 3 naves and side chapels, wonderfully decorated by the most important artists of the time. In the nave on the right, the first chapel has a Nativity of the Pinturicchio (1490) and two tombs by Sangallo and Andrea Bregno. The vault is painted with frescoes by Pinturicchio. We can recognize the Coronation of Mary, the Evangelists, the Sibyls, and the Doctors of the Church. The Cerasi chapel, in the left transept, is a treasure, with an Assumption of Annibal Carracci and, above all, two paintings of the Caravaggio: the Conversion of Saint Paul and the Crucifixion of Saint Peter. Through the treatment of light and the trivial realism of the sacred characters, they constituted a revolution that influenced the following centuries. The scale of these paintings can be measured by comparing them with the Adoration of the Magi painted by the Pinturicchio a hundred years earlier (first chapel on the right in the nave). Continuing, we meet the Chigi chapel. Built on Raphael's project, it was started in 1513 and completed by Le Bernin in 1656. The mosaics on the dome are a drawing by Raphael. The lateral tombs, pyramidal in shape, are also by Raphael, but they were modified by Le Bernin.
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