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The three-nave basilica of S. Maria sopra Minerva, begun in the late 13th century and not completed until the mid-15th century, is not the first place that the Dominican Order settled in Rome, but it is the only Dominican church to be built ex novo. It is one of the rare cases of Gothic architecture in the city, in which the Roman building tradition was abandoned and the old spolia material was not used in a recognisable way. Nothing of the original furnishings has survived, with the exception of the funerary monuments of Guglielmo Durando († 1296) and Matteo Orsini († 1340), the latter of which is preserved only in fragments.