Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Item
- Title
- Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
- Alternative Title
- Saint Peter's Basilica
- Creator
- 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)
- City
- Santa Sede, Roma, Italy
- Address
- Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
- GPS
- 41°54'07.6"N 12°27'12.6"E
- Country
- Italy
- Date Created
- second church on the site
- groundbreaking 1506, constructed 1546 to 1564 and 1590, consecrated in 1626
- Century
- 16th Century
- 17th Century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Renaissance
- Cultural Context
- European
- Materials
- masonry
- marble
- stone
- brick
- wood
- Techniques
- stonecutting
- masonry construction
- Subject
- Latin cross plan
- Baroque
- plaza
- dome
- columns
- pediments
- statues
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- Michael Peters
- Photographer
- Michael Peters
- Rights Holder
- © Michael Peters
- © Texas Tech University Libraries
- Access Rights
- Users must request permission from the copyright holder for all use in publications, including theses and dissertations.
- Item sets
- Michael Peters Collection
Donato Bramante (Italian architect, 1444-1514) et al., “Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed July 13, 2026, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/42044