I recently posted about the incredible Caravaggio paintings hanging in a chapel in this church (see here: https://getbacklauretta.com/2026/06/17/weird-and-wonderful-baroque-and-mannerist-details-inside-the-basilica-of-santa-maria-del-popolo-rome/). On my recent visit, I loved walking around the church and just admiring all the weird details! No study, no label reading, just looking and laughing on the inside!
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The lion’s head especially, what detail, and what superb finish!
Riches, and many droll moments. The personalities of the statuary!
Exactly! The incredible monies spent on these crazy monuments! Their weird and wonderful personalities. The supernatural. It’s all there in one church in Rome (of course, repeated over and over all over the world, but no place better than here!).