PIAZZA NAVONA

The square was given a face-lift in the mid-seventeeth century by Pope Innocent X°, who build most of the grandiose palaces that surround it and commisioned Borromini, supposedly stands on the spot where Saint Agnes, exposed naked to the public in the stadium, miraculously grew hair to cover herself.There's more work by Caravaggio down Via della Scrofa, in the French national church of San Luigi dei Francesi, in the lost chapel on the left: early works, describing the life and martyrdom of Saint Matthew, best of which is the7 Calling of St. Matthew on the left wall. Matthew is the dissolute-looking youth on the far left, illuminated by a shaft of sunlight.