The "Guidetti Cloister, adjacent to the Chapterhouse of the convent of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, is named after architect Guidetto Guidetti, who designed it in the late 16^th century. It is decorated with a magnificent pictorial cycle in the Mannerist and Early Baroque style, with the "Mysteries of the Rosary" and "Scenes from the Life of Saint Thomas Aquinas"

A bronze statue cast in 2003 by Sandro Chia stands in the garden of the cloister: it is a single-winged angel raising a golden heart towards the sky. The artist reminds humankind that it must keep united and sympathetic to be able to make its age-old aspiration to flight and freedom come true.