There are at least two more sites other than the Vatican, in Rome closely associated with St. Peter.?

Question

What are they? What was the event? Michelangelo is associated with each. Why are they so important in the History of Art? Thank you......Suzy

Answer 1

There are actually three more churches in Rome associated with Saint Peter. San Pietro in Vincoli, San Pietro in Carcere and San Pietro della Montagne. Michelangelo created the sculpture of mose which is now in San Pietro in Vincoli but of his association whith the others, I'm not sure. I'll see what I can remember or discover for you.

As for Moses's importance to Art History.

Moses is also an image of Michelangelo's own aspirations, a figure in de Tolnay's words, "trembling with indignation, having mastered the explosion of his wrath". Inspired perhaps by the medieval conception of man as microcosm, he brought together the elements in allegorical guise: the flowing beard suggests water, the wildly twisting hair fire, the heavy drape earth. In an ideal sense, the Moses represents also both the artist and the Pope, two personalities who had in common what is known as "terribilità".

Answer 2

One is San Pietro in Vincoli, which contains chains that supposedly Peter was held with. It also has Michaelangelo's statue of Moses, part of the tomb of Julius II. I think the other might be the prison one, next to the Forum, but Ive never been in it.