This site originally formed part of a complex owned by the Confraternita dei Disciplinati del Crocifisso di Sant’ Agostino.  The brothers retained it when they sold most of the complex to the nuns of SS Trinità in 1505, and built a new church here some four years later.  Towards the end of the 16th century, it passed to a confraternity variously known as: the Confraternita della Buona Morte; the Confraternita di San Giovanni Decollato; or the Confraternita dei Neri.  This confraternity was dedicated to bringing comfort to prisoners, and particularly to those condemned to death.

The complex was transferred to the Famiglia dei Santantoniari in 1974.

The windows in the facade above the portal now belong to a private residence whose entrance is at number 72.

The inscription above the main entrance reads:

VE.BLIS SOCIETAS MISERICORDIAE

The smaller door to the right leads to the sacristy.

The campanile was rebuilt in the 1950s.

[Arms of the Confraternita dei Disciplinati del Crocifisso di Sant’ Agostino above the portal  Similar arms on the wall of SS Trinità and on building to the right of Sant’ Agostino]

Interior

Beheading of St John the Baptist (16th century)

This altarpiece is on the high altar.  [Details??]

Ecce Homo (1597)

This panel on the altar on the left is signed by Federico Brunori and dated by inscription.

Scenes from the life of St John the Baptist (1604)

Virgilio Nucci was paid in 1604 for the first of this series of 20 panels along the walls of the nave.  Following the restoration:

1. ✴five are attributed to Virgilio Nucci:
   

2. •the Annunciation to Zacharius;
   

3. •the Birth of St John the Baptist;
   

4. •the Naming of St John the Baptist;
   

5. •the Massacre of the Innocents; and
   

6. •St John the Baptist in the Desert;
   

7. ✴eight are attributed to Avanzino Nucci;
   

8. •the Circumcisione of St John the Baptist;
   

9. •St John the Baptist preaching;
   

10. •St John the Baptist introduces Jesus to the crowd;
    

11. •Salome at the banquet of King Herod;
    

12. •the dance of Salome;
    

13. •St John the Baptist in prison;
    

14. •the beheading of St John the Baptist; and
    

15. •the burial of St John the Baptist;
    

16. ✴three are attributed to Felice Damiani; St John the Baptist in prison;
    

17. •Agnus Dei;
    

18. •St Elizabeth flees with the young St John the Baptist from the Massacre of the Innocents; and
    

19. •the death of St Elizabeth; and
    

20. ✴four are by one or more inferior artists
    

21. •the Visitation;
    

22. •St John baptising people in the River Jordan;
    

23. •the Baptism of Christ; and
    

24. •St John the Baptist before Herod.