Santa Maria sopra Minerva


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Cappella Frangipane e Maddaleni-Capiferro
The monument, attributed to a Roman workshop, shows influences from the Florentine art of the age. The sarcophagus is a reused Greek one, from the 4th or 5th century BC. The ancient relief, dated to the 1st century B.C., depicts Hercules fighting the Nemean lion.

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