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San Pietro in Vincoli ([sam ˈpjɛːtro iɱ ˈviŋkoli]; Saint Peter in Chains) is a Roman Catholic titular church and minor basilica in Rome, Italy. The church is on the Oppian Hill near Cavour metro station, a short distance from the Colosseum .
Originally intended for St. Peter's Basilica, the structure was instead placed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli on the Esquiline in Rome after the pope's death. This church was patronized by the Della Rovere family from which Julius came, and he had been titular cardinal there. Julius II, however, is buried next to his uncle Sixtus IV in ...
Moses (Italian: Mosè; c. 1513–1515) is a sculpture by the Italian High Renaissance artist Michelangelo, housed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome. [2] Commissioned in 1505 by Pope Julius II for his tomb , it depicts the biblical figure Moses with horns on his head , based on a description in chapter 34 of Exodus in the Vulgate ...
Benedictus was a Roman Catholic Cardinal, and Cardinal-priest of the titulus of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, also called the titulus Eudoxiae. [a]He was named a cardinal-priest by 1102, according to the Ancienniität Prinzip, developed by Rudolf Huls. [1]
Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini, 1705–1707, by Bizzaccheri and sculpture by Pierre Le Gros the Younger, Rome, San Pietro in Vincoli As house architect of prince Giovanni Battista Pamphili Aldobrandini , he built the entrance gate and garden wall of the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati , accomplished in 1693.
Despite the fact that the so-called "Tomb of Pope Julius II" by Michelangelo is in San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, Julius is in fact buried in St. Peter's Basilica. [114] Michelangelo's tomb was not completed until 1545 and represents a much-abbreviated version of the planned original, which was initially intended for the new St. Peter's Basilica.
The 1061 papal election was held on 30 September 1061 in San Pietro in Vincoli ("Saint Peter in Chains") in Rome, following the death of Pope Nicholas II.In accordance with Nicholas II's bull, In Nomine Domini, the cardinal bishops were the sole electors of the pope for the first time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. [1]
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