Description: The main altar, wall with a partial view of the vault as well as the wall tomb of Pope Paul IV (this replaced the frescoed east wall of the chapel)
Description: Close-up view of background landscape to the viewer?s right of the Annunciation altarpiece (here Lippi may be representing a procession of the Magi)
Description: ?The assumption of the Virgin?, close-up view of the crowned Virgin surrounded by putti whose images are incorporated into the very cloud upon which she stands
Description: View of the fresco ?The Triumph of St. Thomas?. The iconography suggests that it may represent St. Thomas putting down heresy. Filippino?s interest in architectural illusionism was probably an influe
Description: View of figures to the onlooker?s right of the raised central niche in which St. Thomas sits. The large figure in Dominican garb who serves to introduce the visitor into the chapel is thought to repre