St. Peter's Basilica
Stuart Jacome
Arch. 211 M-11
Prof. Khorsandi
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St. Peter’s Basilica
St. Peter's Basilica is an Italian renaissance church in Vatican City. The construction of the Basilica began on April 18th 1506 and was completed on November 18th 1626. Saint Peter’s Basilica is 452 feet high, 730 feet in length, and 500 feet in width and large enough for 60,000 people. Designed principally by Donato Bramante and later Continued by Michelangelo but finished by Giacomo Della Porta. This plan was in the form of an enormous Greek cross with a dome inspired with a dome inspired by that huge circular roman temple, the pantheon as well as four rows of columns, a nave with two aisles on either side. Bramante had envisioned that the central dome would be surrounded by four lower domes at the diagonal axes. Michelangelo designed a massive dome, made almost entirely of heave masonry, that would sit in the middle of the cross above the altar. Carlo Maderno designed and built the atrium. The interior of the church is decorated in baroque style, Bernini another architect that worked on the Basilica created many of its features. He built the elaborate canopy or the main altar which is beneath the dome. As you can see in the plan, the four principal divisions of the basilica extend from the dome and are connected with each other by passages behind the dome piers. To the right and left of the nave lie the smaller and lower aisles, the right of which is bordered by four lateral chapels the left by three chapels and the passage to the roof. The general decoration consists of colored marble figures, mosaics, gilding, etc. and marble figures on the pilasters, ceiling, and walls.
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