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Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio 34 affreschi di scene di martirio ad opera di Niccolò Circignani detto il Pomarancio (Pomarance, 1530 circa – 1597) Antonio Tempesta detto il Tempestino (Firenze, 1555 – Roma, 5 agosto 1630) Matthijs Bril or Matthijs Bril the Younger (1550, Antwerp – 8 June 1583, Rome) Martyrdom cycle The outer wall all around its circuit is decorated with a fresco cycle of thirty-four large panels dating from 1572-1585, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII and depicting The Sufferings of the Martyrs. They contain terrifying and realistic depictions of torture and suffering, and each panel has an explanatory epigraph in Latin and Italian. These name the emperors who ordered the executions, as well as giving appropriate quotations from the Bible. The cycle begins to the left of the entrance with the Crucifixion, and follows with the Massacre of the Innocents and the martyrdom of the apostles before continuing in chronological order. The doctrinal point being made in this arrangement is one given by St Paul, which is that the Crucifixion was, in itself, the wholly effective sacrifice for redemption -but that the subsequent suffering of believers for their faith is mysteriously part of it. The squeamish, and families with children, may not appreciate these frescoes. For others, they are a good aid in understanding the sufferings of the martyrs and the great sacrifices they made for the Faith. From the 18th century they were also a popular tourist attraction, but the attention from the merely curious and morbid slackened off in the 20th century as tastes changed. Most of the fresco work is by Niccolò Pomarancio, but Antonio Tempesta painted the Massacre of the Innocents. It has been thought that Matteo da Siena and Matthijs Bril helped out with the landscape backgrounds, and that the panels featuring St Polycarp and St Margaret of Antioch were repainted by Marcello Leopardi in the 18th century. Others of these panels were repainted in the 19th century after damp destroyed the original paintwork. The latest restoration has been a consolidation primarily, so these panels are still mostly wrecked and difficult to work out. http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/S...