The facade is in Renaissance style (the church become began in 1280 but labored on until 1725), but inside, the arched vaulting is pure Gothic. The major art treasures right here are the “Statua del Redentore” (1521), a statue of Christ through Michelangelo (simply to the left of the altar), and a terrific fresco cycle within the Cappella Carafa (at the proper before the altar), created via Filippino Lippi among 1488 and 1493 to honor St. Thomas Aquinas. Devout Catholics flock to the tomb of Saint Catherine of Siena below the high altar—the room in which she died in 1380 changed into reconstructed by using Antonio Barberini in 1637 (a long way left corner of the church). A pleasant elephant statue by way of Bernini holds up a small obelisk in the piazza in the front of the church. Closer to the doorway in the proper aisle is the Chapel of the Annunciation, commissioned with the aid of the Spanish Cardinal Juan de Torquemada (1388-1468), whose circle of relatives later administered the Inquisition.