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The Carafa Chapel, St Thomas Aquinas, and an earnestness of young monks

The Carafa Chapel, St Thomas Aquinas, and an earnestness of young monks

Art History, Centro Storico, Churches, Early Renaissance, Fresco, Relics, Rome

Tweet This week my parents were in town and on Tuesday I was wandering around churches with my pa and Anthony Blunt’s book on Roman Baroque churches. (We did 16 that day, that’s where I get it from…). The last of the day was Santa Maria sopra...

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