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Titian has a superbly sensual Venus of Urbino (1538), less Greek goddess than the prince’s mistress she probably was, and an equally disturbing Flora (1515; more works by Raphael and Titian can be found in the Palazzo Pitti).
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.
Travelers on their way to or from Rome will be especially interested in Raphael’s cartoons (preparatory drawings) for his School of Athens fresco in the Vatican.
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.
One of Italy’s finest, the Galleria dell’Accademia Carrara has an important Mantegna Madonna and Child and interesting works by Lotto (a Venetian master who spent many years living in Bergamo), Bellini, Raphael, and Titian as well as foreign masters.