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Cerasi Chapel
Side chapel of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome
The Cerasi Chapel or Chapel of the Assumption (Italian: Cappella Cerasi, Cappella dell'Assunta) is one of the side chapels in the left transept of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome.
It contains significant paintings by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci, two of the most important masters of Italian Baroque art, dating from 1600 to 1601.
History
Precursor: Foscari Chapel
Before the present-day edifice another funerary chapel on the same spot was dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
It was built by Pietro Foscari, the Cardinal of Venice. Johann Burchard notes in his diary that the cardinal died on 11 August 1485. "His body was then transferred to the city, and given over for burial in a chapel of the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, which he had built for himself", states Burchard.[1] This construction obviously correlated to the general rebuilding of the