San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini


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Chapel of St. Anthony Abbot
(Baccelli Chapel)
Dedicated to St. Anthony Abbot, Egyptian hermit monk. From 1590 it was the family chapel of Antonio Francesco Benozzi (died in Rome 1592). In 1592 it passed to Lorenzo Benozzi. In 1600 to the Cresci and in 1679 to the Baccelli family (coat-of-arms on the altar and on the entrance arch and funerary monuments on each side wall). Chapel was restored in 2011.
(Plan location #8)
Related links:  Anthony the Great (251-359)