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ROME
Churches
Santa Maria della Pace (vicolo della Pace)
Is a small Renaissance church built in the fifteenth century according to the plan of Baccio Pontelli and restored according to the request of Alexander VII by Pietro da Cortona, who in 1656-57 made the baroque facade with its semicircular atrium. The interior is composed of a rectangular nave that ends in an octangonal space surmounted by a dome. In the first chapel on the right one can admire the celebrated Sibyls of Raphael, painted in 1514. The main altar, a seventeenth-century work by Maderno, is surmounted by the Madonna of Peace, from the fifteenth century. Especially interesting is the cloister of Bramante, planned at the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
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