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had a new cloister built for it, behind the oratory, in which the mass graves of those condemned to death can still be seen – they are covered in marble and inscribed 'DOMINE CVM VENERIS IVDICARE NOLI NOS CONDEMNARE' ('Lord, when you come to judge, do not condemn us'). The church was restored in 1727
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The present church stands on the site of an ancient church called Santa Maria de fovea, Santa Maria della fossa or Santa Maria in petrocia. In 1488 it was granted to the
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With the main structure in place by the late 1430s, commissions for paintings began. The
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Salviati was absent from Rome from 1543 and 1548, and on his return found that "gathering conservatism" and the "ever-rising concentration of authority in
Michelangelo" put his "high Maniera" style out of favour. Perhaps as a response, his
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and associate of Vasari, did a side-altar with the relatively rare scene of Saint
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