Convento di Trinità de' Monti
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Full price: € 12,00 per personConcessions: € 6,00 (students, young people aged between 12 and 18, priests and religious)
Free for children under 12.
Payment must be made in cash at the porter's lodge immediately before the scheduled time of the visit.
Description
Founded by Francis of Paola (1416-1507) in 1494 with funding from the crown of France, the "royal convent of the Trinity of the Mounts" experienced a splendid period between the 16th and 17th centuries, the memory of which remains in its decorative guise: the frescoes in the cloister, with a didactic cycle dedicated to the life of the founding saint and a gallery of portraits of the kings of France; the cryptic anamorphoses by Emmanuel Maignan and François Nicéron; the catoptric sundial by Maignan; the scenographic Wedding at Cana painted in the refectory with admirable illusionistic devices by the Jesuit Andrea Pozzo.