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    behest of Pope Paul III. Piazza del Campidoglio on the top of Capitoline Hill, took on its current layout in the 16th-century, when Pope Paul III commissioned...
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    gathered at the Piazza del Campidoglio and began rioting even before Paul IV died. His statue, erected before the Campidoglio just months before, had a...
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    the façade in the manner introduced at Michelangelo's palace on the Campidoglio. In the narthex of the church, is a 4th-century statue of emperor Constantine...
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    on the command of her spiritual director, Frances took her son to the Campidoglio. On the way, she stopped in the Church of the Aracoeli located there...
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    Capitoline Hill (redirect from Campidoglio)
    Capitoline Hill (/ˈkæpɪtəlaɪn, kəˈpɪt-/ KAP-it-ə-lyne, kə-PIT-; Italian: Campidoglio [kampiˈdɔʎʎo]; Latin: Mons Capitolinus [ˈmõːs kapɪtoːˈliːnʊs]), between...
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    Capitolini) are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of...
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    Hill, where it became the centerpiece to the Piazza del Campidoglio. On 27 September 1540, Paul III formally approved the establishment of the Society...
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    55-metre (18.2 ft) statues of the first-century apostles to Rome, Saints Peter and Paul. The basilica is cruciform in shape, with an elongated nave in the...
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    Sangallo the Younger (1484-1546). Paul III built a "mighty defensive tower, known as the Tower of Paul III” on the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill) "an imposing...
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    the other a simple vase shape, whose employment by Michelangelo at the Campidoglio steps (c 1546), noted by Wittkower, was preceded by very early vasiform...
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    The Torment of Saint Anthony (or The Temptation of Saint Anthony, c. 1487–88) is a painting by Michelangelo, who painted this close copy of the famous...
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    the decoration of Basilica of Saint John Lateran. He also founded an academy of painting and sculpture on the Campidoglio. He also enriched the Vatican...
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    Perugino's Delivery of the Keys. Pope Paul III commissioned Michelangelo to paint yet another fresco of Saint Peter around the year 1545. In contrast...
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    relief tondo (circular composition) of the Madonna and Child and the infant Saint John the Baptist, by the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo Buonarroti...
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    The statue of Saint Petronius (1494–1495) was created by Michelangelo out of marble. Its height is 64 cm. It is situated in the Basilica of San Domenico...
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    See Domenico Bartolini, Cardinal-Priest of San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio Bartolomeo d'Avanzo, Bishop of Calvi e Teano (Italy) Johann Baptist Franzelin...
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    1385, a condemned prisoner named Giordanello degli Alberini was in the Campidoglio waiting to be executed, entrusts his testamentary dispositions to the...
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    Caterina, chapels of St. Paul and Santa Maria della Porta Campoleone: church of San Pietro, in Angevine-Gothic style. Campidoglio: church of San Giovanni...
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    Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Rome Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio Palazzo Farnese St. Peter's Basilica Tor San Michele ✻ San Giovanni dei...
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    Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Rome Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio Palazzo Farnese St. Peter's Basilica Tor San Michele ✻ San Giovanni dei...
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    Ara Cœli in Capitolio, Italian: Basilica di Santa Maria in Ara Cœli al Campidoglio) is a titular basilica and conventual church of the Franciscan Convent...
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    child sitting between her legs. An adult male figure to the right, probably Saint Joseph, is pushed away by Mary. In front of him is the infant John the Baptist...
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    Saint Matthew is a marble sculpture of Matthew the Apostle by Michelangelo. It was intended for a series of twelve apostles for the choir niches of Florence...
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    The Conversion of Saul (Michelangelo) (category Paintings of the Conversion of Saint Paul)
    "Michelangelo and the Human Form," 176. Luca, "The Pauline Chapel," 43. Media related to Michelangelo's Conversion of Saint Paul at Wikimedia Commons...
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    The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) (category Paintings of Saint Peter)
    the series of standing popes in niches, including Saint Peter himself, probably as well as a Saint Paul and a central figure of Christ. Finally, the project...
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    be an altarpiece for his funeral chapel within Old Saint Peter's Basilica. This very chapel of Saint Petronilla was later demolished and the image was...
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    Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Rome Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio Palazzo Farnese St. Peter's Basilica Tor San Michele ✻ San Giovanni dei...
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  • Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Rome Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio Palazzo Farnese St. Peter's Basilica Tor San Michele ✻ San Giovanni dei...
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    Library in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Rome Capitoline Museums Piazza del Campidoglio Palazzo Farnese St. Peter's Basilica Tor San Michele ✻ San Giovanni dei...
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    out under Sixtus IV, who swept the long-established markets from the Campidoglio in 1477 and decreed in a bull of 1480 the widening of streets and the...
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