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Santa Maria sopra Minerva
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The only truly Gothic church in Rome, possibly built, as the name suggests, atop a temple to Minerva. Michelangelo’s bold Risen Christ (1514–21) is a muscular rendition of the Saviour so shockingly nude that church officials added the bronze wisp of drapery. Filippino Lippi frescoed the last chapel on the right; the lower scene on the right wall includes portraits of young Giovanni and Giulio de’ Medici (better known as Popes Leo X and Clement VII), who are buried in tombs by Antonio Sangallo the Younger, in the apse, along with Fra’ Angelico and (most of) St Catherine of Siena.
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Piazza della Minerva
Open 7am–7pm daily Free DA
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