Skulls, skeletons:

  • death's head with or without wings: S Francesco a Ripa _P1010171 & 2; P1010188

    S Francesco a Ripa

  • S Eustachio;

  • S Eustachio;

  • S Eustachio;
  • S Eustachio;

    S FRancesco a Ripa

  • ditto P1010196 and closeup P1010204
  • SM Maggiore;

    SM dei Miracoli P1011180

  • with hair and wings: S Agostino P1010679 & P1010681, also in P1010682, mimicking winged putto-heads; SM Miracoli;

    Winged skull also in

  • S Eustachio, as architectural supporters flanking the central roundel. The moytif must have been well-liked locally, for a very similar one appears on a different tomb in the
  • same church;same church; ;

    SMPop S transept N chapel adjacent;

  • S Agostino - with a laurel wreath!!;
  • S Agostino - with a laurel wreath!!;
  • S Agostino - with a laurel wreath!!;
  • S Francesco a Ripa;

    - and compare the angel version by Borromini:

  • S Carlo alle 4 Fontane;

    S Pietro in Vincoli
    SM dell Anima

  • their brother's head is in S Andrea delle Fratte, P1010036
  • S Croce in J;

    SM dell'Anima P1010735

  • skull and crossbones: SMPop;

  • S Cecilia in T;

    And in a roundel in the floor of the Savelli Chapel:

  • SM in Aracoeli;

    or with a slab set up almost as a bench:

  • SM Aracoeli;
  • SM Aracoeli;

    SM del Popolo

    SM sopra Minerva;

    In the Aracoeili, they form a motif in a chapel:

  • SM in Aracoeli;

  • skeletons with or without hour-glasses; S. Francesco a Ripa: P1010162
  • in shroud S AgostinoSMPop;

    and in the midedle of the floor of the Chigi Chapel (an idea lifted by Bernini for SM della Vittoria = or did he do this one as well?): SMPop;

    S Peter's P1010659-60 P1011408-9

  • SM dell'Anima;

    S Pietro in Vincoli
    S Pietro in Vincoli


  • skeletons as capitals:

  • SM Maggiore;
  • S Gregorio Magno: side entrance;

  • winged hourglass:

    SS Apostoli

  • reclining living deceased;
    Skull in S Giovanni dei Fiorentini

  • Skull in pediment of tomb:

  • SM sopra Minerva;