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Santa Maria sopra Minerva: Capella Aldobrandini

Il Trionfo della Croce ("The Triumph of the Cross") by Cherubino Alberti adorns the top of the chapel. Alberti painted the fresco from 1605 to 1611. Clemente VIII -- a member of the Aldobrandini family -- commissioned a total re-doing of the Aldobrandini Chapel after he was elected pope in 1592, charging architect Giacomo della Porta to design and oversee the project.

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Uploaded on August 31, 2013