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Frontal view of the High Altar, with painting by Guglielmo Cortese, Crucifixion of St. Andrew (1668), depicting the martyrdom of the saint; Sant' Andrea al Quirinale was a project for the Jesuits funded by Prince Camillo Pamphili. It is oval in plan, with the entrance and the altar facing one another on the short axis. Framed by massive pairs of dusty-pink marble columns, with an eccentric inward-curving pediment, the altar aedicule is the focal point of the interior. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 11/20/2007)