The women of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Rome played an influential role in Counter-Reformation architecture, most notably in the Quirinal Hill area. There were “three important aspects of matrons as patrons in late sixteenth-century Rome: it was inspired by the example of another woman; it demonstrates that women could control great wealth; and it shows a knowledgeable awareness of the long tradition of women as patrons of architecture in Rome” (Valone 137). Unfortunately, little of their contribution is left due to the destruction and remodeling of the structures that the women of Quirinal Hill had lovingly and humbly bestowed in the name of religious
