(Legend holds that in 590 the Archangel appeared atop what was then the mausoleum of Hadrian, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the Roman plague, thus lending the fortress its present name).
Raffaello Sanzio Morghen | Montelupo Fiorentino | Raffaello da Montelupo | Raffaello Romanelli | Raffaello Petrucci | Raffaello Baldini | Montelupo Albese | Elymas the sorcerer is struck blind before '''Sergius Paulus'''. Painting by Raffaello Santi |
He is described as a "versatile" architect, who had originally set out to be a sculptor working under Raffaello da Montelupo.
In 1669 Pope Clement IX commissioned replacements for the aging stucco angels by Raffaello da Montelupo, commissioned by Paul III.