Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs

Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs

16th century

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Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

Bugbee, Gordon (photograph)

Italian

Single Built Works

Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Renaissance

churches (buildings)

transepts

Interior view of the transept of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. "Pius IV entrusted Michelangelo Buonarroti, an artist of great prestige who at the time was working at Saint Peter's, to transform the Thermal Baths into a church. The great master had much input especially in the transept area. He created a Greek cross design leaving unchanged several right-angle frames, the vestibule (former nymphaeum passage towards the calidarium) and the chancel (frigidarium). As a result, there were three entrances: two on the sides of the transept and one towards the exedra,"--Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri website.

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