2021年3月21日 · Here are the columns of St. Peter’s Basilica (and of the Church). In the columns that support the dome of St. Peter’s are four statues: St. Veronica, St. Andrew, St. Helen, and...

St. Peter's Square has the shape of an immense ellipse (the visitor who stands in one of the two centers of this ellipse, marked by two white disks, one on each side of the obelisk, sees a single row of columns), 320 m. long and 240 m. wide, at its broadest point.

The Baldacchino is composed of four colossal spiral columns decorated with spiral grooves, olive and laurel branches, and a composite capital; the roof, with volutes and angular statues of extraordinary elegance, culminates with a golden bronze sphere.

There are nine loggias between the columns and the pilasters of the façade. In the center the Loggia of the Blessings stands out. It is from here that the election of the new Pope is announced with the famous words: "Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum.

6 天之前 · Encompassing Saint Peter’s Square are two colonnades which were designed by Bernini to symbolize the embracing maternal arms of the Catholic Church. The colonnades are comprised of four rows of columns, each column with 1.5 meters in diameter and 20 meters high.

The facade of St. Peter’s Basilica is the work of the architect Carlo Maderno who completed it in 1614. 114.69 meters wide and 48 meters high, it presents an order of Corinthian columns and pilasters on which an imposing cornice with a central tympanum is set, crowned by a balustrade on which thirteen statues (almost 6 meters high) rise with ...

Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century, it is famous for its elliptical colonnade consisting of 284 columns arranged in four rows, symbolizing the embrace of the Catholic Church. In the center of the square stands an Egyptian obelisk, surrounded by two fountains.

Two broad stairways in Greek marble, at the end of which are two small statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, give access to a lower area, on the level of the Constantinian basilica. In the center of a sumptuous wall divided by a richly gilded gate is a sacellum, beneath which is St. Peter's tomb.

Bernini conceived the piazza (1656-67) as an enormous oval framed by two colonnades of 284 columns and 88 pillars in four rows. Topped by an entablature with 140 statues of saints, the curved colonnades embrace a 650-foot-long oval like …

Easily the best-known Solomonic columns are the colossal bronze Composite columns by Bernini in his Baldacchino at St. Peter's Basilica. The construction of the baldachin , actually a ciborium , which was finished in 1633, required that the original ones of Constantine be moved.