Oratorio del Gonfalone, Rome

[1] Over the centuries the group dedicated itself to various activities, including the participation in religious processions as banner carriers (wearing white gowns with peaked blue hoods), and also of putting on a yearly passion play.

As the church was close to the Tiber and subject to flooding, he transferred the confraternity to Santa Lucia ai Banchi Vecchi.

In October 1960 the Oratory, restored by the Superintendency of the Galleries and the works of art of Rome, was entrusted to the Roman Polyphonic Choir.

[2] The building on Via del Gonfalone 32a (near corner of Via Giulia and Vicolo della Scimmia) has a modest façade, designed by Domenico Castelli, resembling a simple church.

[3] Inside, a team of prominent Mannerist painters were recruited between 1569–1576 to complete elaborate wall fresco decoration of scenes of the passion.