Located near Piazza della Repubblica, Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri was designed by Michelangelo and is the only Renaissance church in Rome.
At the time of Michelangelo there were two other entrances to the sides of the transept. The building was altered in its original appearance by Luigi Vanvitelli in the seventeenth century, which decorated in the style of the time the sober interior wanted by Michelangelo, of which no documentation remains and also intervened to recreate an architectural uniformity that had been lost with various interventions subsequent to Michelangelo.
The intervention consisted in the restoration of the elements in “Opus Testaceum” including the resumption and verification of the conservation of the trunks, the revision and restoration of the brick wall facing and the resumption of the ironing of the joints.