Genius of Michelangelo

Michelangelo's Roman Architecture—Part 2 (1x33)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

We conclude our look at Michelangelo's architectural legacy to Rome with his innovative gate to the city, the Porta Pia; his transformation of a pagan place of leisure, the partially ruined baths of Caracalla, into a Christian church; and the more modest chapel he designed for the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.