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Santa Maria della Concezione Review
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Santa Maria della Concezione
- Address: Via Veneto 27, Via Veneto, Rome | Map It
- Phone: 06/4871185
- Category: Religious Sites, Cemeteries
- Location: Via Veneto
Fodor's Review:
Although not for the easily spooked, the crypt under the main Capuchin church holds the bones of some 4,000 dead Capuchin monks. Arranged in odd decorative designs around the shriveled and decayed skeletons of their kinsmen, a macabre reminder of the impermanence of earthly life, the crypt is actually touching and oddly beautiful. Signs declare, "What you are, we once were. What we are, you someday will be." Upstairs in the church, the first chapel on the right contains Guido Reni's mid-17th-century St. Michael Trampling the Devil. The painting caused great scandal after an astute contemporary observer remarked that the face of the devil bore a surprising resemblance to the Pamphili Pope Innocent X, archenemy of Reni's Barberini patrons. Compare the devil with the bust of the pope that you saw in the Palazzo Doria Pamphilj and judge for yourself.
- Cost: Donation expected
- Open: Fri.-Wed. 9-noon and 3-6
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