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| | Basilica di S.Maria degli Angeli F13a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | But it had to be built much earlier in 1378 when two benefactors, Niccolo' da Nola and Napoleone Orsino, left to the pope Urban V the sum of 3000 golden florins to construct a Carthusian church inside of the Baths of Diocletian. |
 | | But he corrected himself immediately: "Or better say, the statue that would speak, if it would not be prohibited by the Rule", because one of the norms of the Carthusian Rule was to keep silence... |
 | | The huge paintings were moved here from St Peter's where were substituted by mosaics, and include: Mass of St Basil, by P.Subleyras; Fall of Simon Magus, by P.Batoni; Martyrdom of St Sebastian, by Domenichino; Death of Ananias and Sapphira, by Pomarancio; Baptism of Christ, by C.Maratta. |
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