Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (St. Peter's, Interior), from Vedute di Roma, (Views of Rome)
1773
18th Century
19 x 26 1/2 in. (48.3 x 67.3 cm)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi,
Italian,
(1720–1778)
Object Type:
PRINTS
Creation Place:
Europe, Italy
Medium and Support:
Engraving, etching
Accession Number:
67-G-166
St. Peter’s Basilica is a monument to the disciple Peter whom Christ declared the rock upon which he would build the Church. The Vatican has long held that Peter was buried under the Basilica, and Pope Urban VIII commissioned the artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the seventeenth century to design a structure that would be placed over the tomb of St. Peter. Bernini’s designs incorporated giant Solomonic columns inspired by columns that ringed the altar of the Old St. Peter’s.
Current Location:
In Storage
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