About 1650 Camillo Arcucci (active since 1646/d. 1667)
Decorative
architecture about 1726 almost certainly by Filippo
Raguzzini (1680/1771) for Benedict XIII Orsini (1724/30)
EXTERNAL
STAIRCASE built in 1838
Since 1931
the church passed to the Cloistered Dominican Sisters of Sts. Dominic and Sixtus in Magnanapoli,
who moved in the CONVENT next to the church, renovated and enlarged
ON THE
RIGHT
“Madonna
and Child” by the school of Antonio Aquili aka
Antoniozzo Romano (about 1435-40/1508)
“Death of
St. Joseph” 1710 by Biagio Puccini (1673/1721)
ON THE LEFT
“Sts.
Dominic and Catherine of Siena” by Michelangelo Cerruti
(1663/1748)
MONASTERY
Relic of
the left hand of St. Catherine of Siena with the sign of the stigmata
Copy of the
painting on wood of Syro-Palestinian school “Madonna of St. Luke” seventh or eighth
century, brought to Rome by St. Dominic in 1219
The
original is at the back of the copy, facing the nuns' choir, and it is only
shown on request
In the
monastery the pianist and composer Franz Liszt (1811/86) stayed from 1863 to
1868 and composed here some of his works
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