Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano

Saint Peter's Basilica

Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514)

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (Italian architect, 1484-1546)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian architect, 1475-1564)

Jacopo da Vignola (Italian architect, 1507-1573)

Giacomo della Porta (Italian architect, sculptor, 1532/1533-1602 or 1604)

Carlo Maderno (Italian architect, ca. 1556 - 1629)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680)

Santa Sede, Roma, Italy

Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City

41°54'07.6"N 12°27'12.6"E

Italy

second church on the site

groundbreaking 1506, constructed 1546 to 1564 and 1590, consecrated in 1626

16th Century

17th Century

Architecture and City Planning

churches

religious buildings

Renaissance

European

masonry

marble

stone

brick

wood

stonecutting

masonry construction

Latin cross plan

Baroque

plaza

dome

columns

pediments

statues

architectural view

exterior view, east view from St. Peter's Square

Papal church located within Vatican City. It replaces an earlier basilica constructed under Constantine the Great. The basilica is cruciform in shape, with an elongated nave in the Latin cross form but the early designs were for a centrally planned structure and this is still in evidence in the architecture. It is constructed on the site where at the beginning of the first century the garden of Agrippina lay. Her son, Caius Caligula, built a circus there, in the spina of which he erected the celebrated obelisk without heiroglyphics which was brought from Heliopolis and now stands in the Piazza di S. Pietro.

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