For centuries, the mysterious power in plaster and color that adorns a small papal chapel here was locked from prying eyes.

Each year, at Pentecost, a student delivered a discourse on the Holy Ghost in the papal chapel.

Gobbi in his private papal chapel in the Vatican on an annual basis for several years.

From 1622 until his death he was a soprano singer in the papal chapel in Rome.

In 1595 he was appointed sacristan in the papal chapel.

Yet in 1435 he was again in the service of the papal chapel, but this time it was in Florence.

Several of his motets have been dated to the years he spent at the papal chapel.

This piece was guarded closely by the papal chapel; it was considered so beautiful that copies were not allowed to circulate.

Mazzocchi is associated with providing music for the papal chapels.

Much of his religious music, except for the sacred chansons, he probably wrote during his years in the papal chapel in Rome.