Known in
the Middle Ages as S. Maria in Pallara from the Palladium of
Troy, which was in the Temple of the Sun
The Palladium was a statue which, according
to ancient beliefs, was able to defend an entire city
Rebuilt
1624/30 for Urban VIII Barberini (1623/44) by Luigi
Arrigucci (1575/after 1643) retaining the original apse of the tenth
century with traces of frescoes
COUNTER
FAÇADE
Watercolors
nineteenth-century copies of those of the seventeenth century, which were
themselves copies of the destroyed medieval frescoes
Paintings
in the PRESBYTERY and in the SPANDRELS
“God the
Father and angels”, “Virtues”and “St. Sebastian” 1633/36 by Bernardino Gagliardi (1609/1660)
BEHIND THE
MAIN ALTAR
ALTARPIECE
ON THE LEFT WALL
“Martyrdom
of St. Sebastian” 1633 by Andrea Camassei (1602/49)
with the episode of the whipping that actually killed St. Sebastian and is
rarely represented
The
arrows with which he had previously been wounded in fact had not killed him
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