Piazza San Pietro
Item
- Title
- Piazza San Pietro
- Alternative Title
- Saint Peter's Square
- St. Peter's Square
- Piazza S. Pietro
- Forum Sancti Petri
- Creator
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680)
- City
- Holy See, Roma, Italy
- Address
- VA Piazza San Pietro, 00120 Città del Vaticano, Vatican City
- GPS
- 41°54'08.2"N 12°27'26.1"E
- Country
- Italy
- Date Created
- designed and built in 1656-1667
- Century
- 17th Century
- Classification
- Architecture and City Planning
- Style/Period
- Renaissance
- Cultural Context
- Italian
- Materials
- stone
- Techniques
- masonry construction
- Subject
- open space
- square
- urban design
- obelisk
- columns
- fountains
- Description
- partial view
- exterior view, west view
- The open space, with encircling colonnaded arms, that lies before the St. Peter's Basilica. It was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656-1667, under the direction of Pope Alexander VII.
- 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
Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680), “Piazza San Pietro”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed April 8, 2026, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/45249