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On the north side, the church of Santa Maria del Popolo is important for Raphael’s Chigi Chapel, exquisite frescoes by Pincuricchio, and, above all, two profoundly disturbing early 17th-century paintings by Caravaggio, the Conversion of St. Paul and Crucifixion of St. Peter, in the Cerasi Chapel left of the choir.
"What Raphael had of art," he wrote in a 1542 letter, "he had of me."
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.
The true father of Rome’s High Renaissance, Pope Julius II (1503–1513) began the new St. Peter’s cathedral, and commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and Raphael to decorate the Stanze.
In stark contrast to Raphael’s grand manner, seek out the gentle beauty of Fra Angelico’s frescoes in the Chapel of Nicholas V (Cappella del Beato Angelico).