Cappella Cerasi (Santa Maria del Popolo)
Mon–Sat: ClosedSun: 16:30-18:00
Free
45min
Bring 1 coin for the lights illuminating the Caravaggios.
Piazza del Popolo, 12, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
Inside the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, this side chapel houses two of Caravaggio's most powerful paintings: The Conversion of Saint Paul (1601) — showing Saul thrown from his horse on the road to Damascus, with the horse's massive rump dominating the foreground — and The Crucifixion of Saint Peter, with elderly muscular workmen straining to raise the upside-down cross. Annibale Carracci's altarpiece (Assumption of the Virgin) hangs between them. A complete Caravaggio masterpiece in a single chapel.