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Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini (Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini) - a small church of the Capuchins on the Via Veneto in Rome, near Palazzo Barberini and the Triton Fountain. Designed by Antonio Casoni in the 1626-31 biennium.
After the construction of the church from the old cemetery Capuchin, rapolagaet near the Trevi Fountain was moved bones buried there monks and placed in the crypt of the church. Gradually were made decorations all six areas of the crypt. In total, the crypt contains the bones of four thousand monks who died in the period from 1528 to 1870. The fifth room of the crypt is located skeleton princess Barberini, niece of Pope Sixtus V, who died in childhood. Making the crypt in the spirit of the Baroque was the prototype of the Sedlec Ossuary.
After the construction of the church from the old cemetery Capuchin, rapolagaet near the Trevi Fountain was moved bones buried there monks and placed in the crypt of the church. Gradually were made decorations all six areas of the crypt. In total, the crypt contains the bones of four thousand monks who died in the period from 1528 to 1870. The fifth room of the crypt is located skeleton princess Barberini, niece of Pope Sixtus V, who died in childhood. Making the crypt in the spirit of the Baroque was the prototype of the Sedlec Ossuary.
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