Sant'Antonio dei Portoghesi
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Sant'Antonio del Portoghesi is a Baroque church in Rome designed by Martino Longhi il Giovani (1638), Carlo Rainaldi (1657), and finally by Cristoforo Schor (1697), under the initial patronage of Cardinal Martinez de Chiaves. The ribbed dome (1674-76) was designed by Rainaldi.
The roof is stuccoed by Pompeo Gentile and frescoed by Salvatore Nobili. In the first chapel, the neoclassic monument to Alessandro De Souza was sculpted by Antonio Canova in 1808; the second chapel has a Baptism of Christ by Giacinto Calandrucci, and a Circumcision of John the Baptist by Nicolas Lorrain. A second monument in the chapel is also by Calandrucci.
The main altar has an Apparition of the Virgin. Another chapel includes a Monument to Sampajo by Pietro Bracci from 1750. The second chapel has three artworks by Lorrain: a Nativity, Adoration by the Magi, and Repose in Egypt. The first chapel on the left has an altarpiece of Madonna with child and Saints Antonio of Padua and Francis by Antoniazzo Romano.
