La Church of SS. Vincent and Anastasius is known by Romans as the Church of the Reed Bed, because the facade is overloaded with as many as 18 columns, which make it look like a reed bed.
Cardinal Mazarin had his own emblem placed on the tympanum, but he also wanted to put the bust of one of his nieces, a unique case in Rome of a statue with the face of a laywoman. Moreover, the presence of two statues of bare-breasted women on the facade are also unique examples in Rome.
Inside, the apse plaques recall that here are kept the precordia, part of the embalmed heart of almost all the popes, from Pope Sixtus V to Pope Leo XIII.
