San Pietro in Montorio

San Pietro in Montorio (English: "Saint Peter on the Golden Mountain") is a church in Rome, Italy, which includes in its courtyard the Tempietto, a small commemorative martyrium ('martyry') built by Donato Bramante.

[1] In the 15th century, the ruins were given to the Amadist friars, a reform branch of the Franciscans, founded by the Blessed Amadeus of Portugal, who served as confessor to Pope Sixtus IV from 1472.

Although there is no grave marker, tradition has it that Beatrice Cenci—executed in 1599 for the murder of her abusive father and made famous by Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others—is buried below the high altar.

The altarpiece is attributed to Giulio Mazzoni, while the funerary monument of Pope Julius III and Roberto Nobili are by Bartolomeo Ammannati.

The last chapel on the left contains a Baptism of Christ, attributed to Daniele da Volterra, and stucco-work and ceiling frescoes by Giulio Mazzoni.

Dirck van Baburen, a central figure of the Dutch Caravaggisti, painted the Entombment for the Pietà Chapel, which is indebted to Caravaggio's example.

[4][5] At least eleven Irish exiles were interred at San Pietro in Montorio (including O'Neill's foster-brother Henry Hovenden), though not all have commemorative slabs.

'small temple') is a small commemorative tomb (martyrium) designed by Donato Bramante, possibly built as early as 1502 in the courtyard of San Pietro in Montorio.

Façade of Tempietto del Bramante , with entrance to the cloister at right
Francesco Baratta. Saint Francis in Ecstasy , c. 1640 . Raimondi Chapel, San Pietro in Montorio.
Inscription on Hugh O'Neill's tomb
The Tempietto in Andrea Palladio 's Quattro Libri (woodcut, 1570)