Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: St. Peter's Baldachin
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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St. Peter's Baldachin
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Alternate Title:
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Baldacchino di San Pietro
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Image View:
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Detail, middle sections of twisted column decorated with putti, bees and laurel leaves
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Creator:
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian sculptor, 1598-1680)
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Location:
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site: Saint Peter's (Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano) (Rome (Vatican City), Santa Sede (Holy See), Italy)
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Location Note:
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Piazza di San Pietro
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GPS:
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+41.902222+12.453333
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Date:
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1623-1634 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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Italian
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Style Period:
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Baroque; Seventeenth century
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Work Type 1:
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ciborium (structure)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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bronze; marble
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Technique:
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carving (processes); casting (process)
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Measurements:
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94.3 ft (height)
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Subjects:
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architecture; Old Testament and Apocrypha; Barberini family; Urban VIII, Pope, 1568-1644; bees
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Description:
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A large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's. The baldachin is at the center of the crossing, and directly under the dome of the basilica, to mark the place of Saint Peter's tomb underneath. The four columns are 66 feet high. The base and capital were cast separately and the shaft of each column was cast in three sections. Their helical (twisted) form was derived from the smaller marble helical columns once thought to have been brought to Rome by the Emperor Constantine from Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The structure is decorated with detailed motifs including heraldic emblems of the Barberini family (Urban VIII was born Maffeo Barberini) such as bees and laurel leaves. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A1-BG-SP-BAL-A16
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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