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San Lorenzo in Damaso (Saint Lawrence in the House of Damasus) is a basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 church in
Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 Churches in Rome. Most, but not all, of these are Roman Catholic, with some notable Roman Catholic Marian churches....
 Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, one of several dedicated to the Roman deacon and martyr Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Roman Emperor Valerian in the year 258....
. Known since antiquity (synod of Pope Symmachus
Pope Symmachus

Pope Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514.He was born on Sardinia, the son of Fortunatus. He was baptized in Rome, where he became archdeacon of the Church under Pope Anastasius II....
, 499) as Titulus Damasi, according to tradition San Lorenzo in Damaso was built by Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I

Pope Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco , then part of the Western Roman Empire....
 in his own house, in the 380s.

Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St....
 rebuilt the church in the 15th century, by order of Cardinal Raffaele Riario
Raffaele Riario

Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario was an Italy Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the one who invited Michelangelo to Rome....
, within the restoration works of the close by Palazzo della Cancelleria
Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Palazzo della Cancelleria is a palace in Rome, situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori, in the rione of Parione....
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San Lorenzo in Damaso (Saint Lawrence in the House of Damasus) is a basilica
Basilica

The Latin word basilica , was originally used to describe a ancient Rome public building , usually located in the Forum of a Roman town. In Hellenistic cities, public basilicas appeared in the 2nd century BC....
 church in
Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 Churches in Rome. Most, but not all, of these are Roman Catholic, with some notable Roman Catholic Marian churches....
 Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, one of several dedicated to the Roman deacon and martyr Saint Lawrence
Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Roman Emperor Valerian in the year 258....
. Known since antiquity (synod of Pope Symmachus
Pope Symmachus

Pope Saint Symmachus was pope from 498 to 514.He was born on Sardinia, the son of Fortunatus. He was baptized in Rome, where he became archdeacon of the Church under Pope Anastasius II....
, 499) as Titulus Damasi, according to tradition San Lorenzo in Damaso was built by Pope Damasus I
Pope Damasus I

Pope Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco , then part of the Western Roman Empire....
 in his own house, in the 380s.

Donato Bramante
Donato Bramante

Donato Bramante was an Italian architect, who introduced the Early Renaissance style to Milan and the High Renaissance style to Rome, where his most famous design was St....
 rebuilt the church in the 15th century, by order of Cardinal Raffaele Riario
Raffaele Riario

Raffaele Sansoni Galeoti Riario was an Italy Cardinal of the Renaissance, mainly known as the constructor of the Palazzo della Cancelleria and the one who invited Michelangelo to Rome....
, within the restoration works of the close by Palazzo della Cancelleria
Palazzo della Cancelleria

The Palazzo della Cancelleria is a palace in Rome, situated between the present Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and the Campo de' Fiori, in the rione of Parione....
. The last restoration was necessary after a fire that damaged the basilica in 1944.

The first chapel to the right houses a Virgin with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicoḷ by Sebastiano Conca
Sebastiano Conca

Sebastiano Conca was an Italy Painting.He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena....
, while the ceiling is frescoed with Eternity appears to San Nicola by Corrado Giaquinto
Corrado Giaquinto

Corrado Giaquinto was an Italian Rococo painter....
. The first chapel to the left has a Last Supper by Vincenzo Berrettini.

In the first nave to the left, are statues of Saints Francesco Saverio and Carlo Borromeo by Stefano Maderno
Stefano Maderno

Stefano Maderno was an Italy sculpture....
. On the right nave, there is a monument to Gabriella di Savoia Massimo by Pietro Tenerani
Pietro Tenerani

Pietro Tenerani was an Italian sculptor who studied in the studios of both Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen and carried a chaste Neoclassicism into the mid-nineteenth century, specialising in pious subjects....
. The presbitery, modified by Bernini, is the altarpiece of Saints and Coronation of Mary by Federico Zuccari
Federico Zuccari

Federico Zuccari, also known as Federigo Zuccaro , was an Italy Mannerism Painting and architect, active both in Italy and abroad....
. In the nave to the left of the presbitery, is the chapel of the SS.Concezione completed and frescoed (1635-38) by Pietro da Cortona
Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he was equally adept and masterful with architectural design....
. Other works include the monument of Cardinal Trevisan (1505), the Madonna delle Gioie, attributed to Nicoḷ Circignani, and the monument of Annibal Caro (1566), by Giovanni Antonio Dosio
Giovanni Antonio Dosio

Giovanni Antonio Dosio was an Italy architect and sculptor.He was born in San Gimignano. A student of Bartolomeo Ammanati, with whom he realized the Villa dell'Ambrogiana, Dosio worked primarily in Rome and Florence , with some commissions that took him to Naples....
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The Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Laurentii in Damaso is Antonio Rouco Varela, Archbishop of Madrid
Madrid

Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
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