Basilica of Sant'Agostino

This early Renaissance basilica near Piazza Navona holds several notable works within its bright, harmonious interior. Caravaggio's Madonna di Loreto, showing barefoot pilgrims kneeling before the Virgin, hangs in a chapel to the left of the entrance and caused a stir for its earthy realism. Raphael frescoed a figure of the prophet Isaiah on a nave pillar, and Jacopo Sansovino carved the venerated Madonna del Parto near the door, its foot worn smooth by centuries of touch.