Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio


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Martyrs of the Middle Ages
The thirty-second fresco. The foreground is populated by 17 martyrs, including 2 popes, 5 bishops, 2 kings, a queen and a monk. Behind, a crowd of martyrs is being tortured and killed. At the top of the picture there is a river with ships and occasionally drowned martyrs, in front of a city of Nordic proportions. The title of this fresco is: "Laudabit. te. populus. fortis. civitas. genti um. robustarvi".