La Church of SS. Vincent and Anastasia is known by Romans as the Church of the Reed Bed, because the facade is overloaded with as many as 18 columns, making it resemble a reed bed.
Cardinal Mazarin had his coat of arms placed on the tympanum, but he also wanted to put there 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 topless women on the facade are unique examples in Rome.
Inside, the apse plaques recall that here the precordia are kept, part of the embalmed heart of almost all the popes, from Pope Sixtus V to Pope Leo XIII.
