Santa Maria della Pieta in Camposanto Teutonico


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The left hand side chapel is decorated in the Baroque style. It is a memorial to the Swiss Guards killed in the Sack of Rome in 1527. The side wall frescoes are by Polidoro da Caravaggio. The altarpiece is a white marble bas-relief of The Resurrection.

Related links:  Polidoro da Caravaggio (1499-1543), Italian painter of the Mannerist period