Santa Maria sopra Minerva


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Cappella Capranica
In 1573, for the Jubilee which was imminent, the Confraternity of the Rosary, of which Cardinal Angelo Capranica had been a member, decided to commission Marcello Venusti to paint the ceiling canvases, placed in a rich series of stucco frames. Immediately following the Battle of Lepanto, the subject chosen for the decoration of the ceiling was the Mysteries of the Rosary.

Related links:  Battle of Lepanto (1571)