St. Peter’s Basilica

Name: Chenfei Cao

Course:Arch 162- M 12

St. Peter’s Basilica
St Peters of Basilica is the most renowned work of Renaissance Architecture and the largest church in the world. It is located in Vatican City west of River Tiber and near the Janiculum Hill. The construction of the modern Basilica which would replace the Old St Peters Basilica was completed on 18th November 1626.Do note Bramante design was the one selected but renaissance architecture such as Raphael and Michael Angelo designs were integrated into the structure
The Basilica is approached via St Peters square, afore count in two sections both surrounded by tall Cannonades. The Vatican is composed of two shapes which are oval and trapezoid. The basilica which is cruciform in shape has an extended nave that takes the Latin cross form (Zucker and beth).The Architecture plan resembles an enormous Greek cross with a doom galvanized by the construction similar to that of the Circular Roman temple of Pantheon and is made up of a nave and a facade.
The doom of St Peters rises to a top height of136.57 meters from the floor of Basilica to the top and the external cross.The internal diameter is41.47meters. The Facade is 114.69meters wide and 4.55 meters high and built of travertine stone, with a giant order of Corinthian columns and a central pediment rising in front of a tall attic. Following St. Peter's facade purview a long portico usually found in Italian churches built by Romans of the renaissance era. The barrel vault is enhanced with gilt and ornate stucco. A small window illuminates them adding to the appealing look where. The design of St Peters Basilica mostly the Dome has greatly influenced church architecture in the West and most Catholic Church structures. Catholic tradition holds that the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, chief among Jesus's Apostles and the first Bishop of Rome. Saint Peter's tomb is supposedly directly below the high altar of the Basilica. Because of that, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period, and there has been a church on this site since the time of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great. Construction of the present basilica, which would replace Old St. Peter's Basilica from the 4th century AD, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626 (En.wikipedia.org, 2018).
 
“St. Peter's Basilica in Rome: Architecture & History.” Study.com, Study.com, study.com/academy/lesson/st-Peters-basilica-in-Rome-architecture-history-quiz.html.
Zucker, Steven, and Beth Harris. “Bramante, Et.al. Saint Peter's Basilica.” Khan Academy, 2015, www.khanacademy.org/humanities/renaissance-reformation/high-ren-florence-rome/bramante/a/bramante-etal-saint-peters-basilica.

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