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  2. San Pietro in Vincoli - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Moses (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Tomb of Pope Julius II - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Art patronage of Julius II - Wikipedia

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    1545 – The final tomb is completed, and installed in San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome; it includes the original Moses sculpture along with Leah and Rachel on the lower level, and several other sculptures (definitively not by Michelangelo) on the upper level. St. Peter’s Basilica

  6. Nicholas of Cusa - Wikipedia

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    Tomb in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome, with the relief "Cardinal Nicholas before St Peter" by Andrea Bregno. Upon his death, Nicholas's body was interred in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli in Rome, probably near the relic of Peter's chains; but it was later lost. His monument, with a sculpted image of the cardinal, remains.

  7. Cinzio Aldobrandini - Wikipedia

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    Tomb in the church San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. Cinzio was born in Senigallia, a son of Aurelio Personeni and Giulia Aldobrandini, the latter being sister to cardinal Ippolito Aldobrandini (later Pope Clement VIII). In 1565 Cinzio began his studies in letters and law at Ippolito's household in Rome.

  8. List of titular churches - Wikipedia

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    San Pietro in Montorio: James Stafford: 1 March 2008 [iii] [147] [148] San Pietro in Vincoli (basilica) Donald Wuerl: 20 November 2010 [52] [149] San Pio X alla Balduina: Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez: 28 June 1991 [150] San Policarpo: Alberto Suárez Inda: 14 February 2015 [26] [151] Santa Prassede (basilica) Paul Poupard: 29 January ...

  9. Churches of Rome - Wikipedia

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    Pope Marcellus I (A.D. 306–308) is said to have recognized twenty five tituli in the City of Rome, quasi dioecesis. [5] It is known that in 336, Pope Julius I had set the number of presbyter cardinals to 28, [6] so that for each day of the week, a different presbyter cardinal would say mass in one of the four major basilicas of Rome, St. Peter's, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls ...