Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome was designed by Michelangelo for Pope Pius IV, who ordered the church in 1561 partly as a personal monument. Jacopo Del Duca continued after 1564, and Luigi Vanvitelli did later work in 1749. The infobox gives groundbreaking in 1562, while the text dates Michelangelo's work to 1563 and 1564. It also ends Carthusian tenure in 1870 in the infobox and 1873 in the text.
The article describes a Greek-cross plan with a dominant transept, built within the Baths of Diocletian. Roman brick and red granite columns survive, and the meridian line is bronze in marble. It is 420 by 344 feet (128 by 105 m) per the infobox. The transept is 298 feet (90.8 m) long.
The Vanvitelli facade was demolished in 1911, and a stained-glass dome was installed in 2001. It is a minor basilica and titular church used for soldiers' funerals. The article gives no hours.
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