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Chapel of St Sebastian, Vestibule
The Lamb and Eternal Father(1652-1663)
From designs by
Pietro da Cortona and Ciro Ferri

 












The Upper Mosaics of St Peter's
 The St Sebastian Chapel - Vestibule
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DOME:
1. The procession of the martyrs
2. The Eternal Father and the Lamb

SPANDRELS:
3. Ezekiel
4. Abel
5. Isaiah
6. Zechariah
LUNETTES:
 7. An angel bears palm fronds over the bodies of two Jewish mothers and their children
 8. Eleazar refuses to eat the prohibited meat
 9. The martyrdom of the seven Maccabee  brothers
10. Mattathias kills an idolatrous Jew
11. Daniel in the lion's den
12. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego condemned by Nebuchadnezzar to burn in the furnace




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