Oratorio di San Giovanni in Oleo

Roma Capitale records that the design is attributed variously to Bramante, to Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and to Baldassarre Peruzzi, and that the oratory was built at the expense of the French prelate Benedetto Adam, recorded on one of the two doors with the motto Au plaisir de Dieu. In 1658 Cardinal Francesco Paolucci had it restored along with San Giovanni a Porta Latina, of which he was titular, and the work went to Francesco Borromini, who altered the covering with a drum, a tall stucco frieze and a conical roof ending in a sheaf of leaves under a globe decorated with roses, alluding to the Paolucci arms. In 1967 the finial was replaced by a plaster cast and the original was placed under the portico of San Giovanni a Porta Latina, where it still is. The walls were decorated at the same time with stuccoes and frescoes attributed to Lazzaro Baldi.