Maderno

Giovanni dei Fiorentini) he decorated the High Altar not far from this grave stone near to the mortal remains of Carlo Maderno he was found near to the city and his relative (Carlo Maderno) in peace he rests with the Lord.

Gardens were conceived by Maderno.

In recent times, his name was added on the marble plaque below the tomb of Maderno and a commemorative plaque commissioned by the Swiss embassy in Rome was placed on a pillar of the church.

Official papal investigations in 1680 in fact completely exonerated Bernini, while inculpating Maderno.

The body had been discovered accidentally during the removal of several altars from the old St. Peter's to make way for the walls and new chapels of Maderno's nave.

The subsequent investigations in fact revealed the cause of the cracks as Maderno's defective foundations and not Bernini's elaborate design, an exoneration later confirmed by the meticulous investigation conducted in 1680 under Pope Innocent XI.

To great protest from older, most experienced architects, he was appointed Chief Architect of St Peter's in 1629, upon the death of Carlo Maderno.

When Maderno died in 1629, he and Pietro da Cortona continued to work on the palace under the direction of Bernini.