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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
Italian architecture
*Work
Type [link]: dome
*Title/Name: Dome
of Saint Peter's
*Creator
Display: designed by Michelangelo
Buonarroti (Florentine, 1475-1564), design revised
by Giacomo della Porta (Italian, 1532/1533-1602)
and Domenico Fontana (Italian, 1543-1607)
*Role
[link]: architect
[link]: Buonarroti, Michelangelo
*Role
[link]: architect Extent:
revisions to design [link]: Porta, Giacomo
della
*Role
[link]: architect Extent:
revisions to design [link]: Fontana, Domenico
*Creation
Date Display: designed mid-1550s,
constructed late 16th century
[controlled]: Qualifier:
design •
Earliest: 1530
• Latest: 1570 |
Qualifier:
construction
• Earliest: 1451
• Latest: 1600
*Subject
[links]:
• architecture • dome
*Current
Location [link to authority]: Saint
Peter's Basilica (Vatican City, Rome, Italy)
*Measurements:
diameter: 42 m (138 feet); height of dome: 138
m (452 feet) above the street, 119 m (390 feet)
above the floor
[controlled] Extent:
exterior Value:
138 Unit: m
Type: height |
Extent: interior
Value: 119
Unit: m Type: height
| Value: 42
Unit: m Type: diameter
*Materials
and Techniques: brick, with iron
chain compression ring
Material [links]:
• brick Technique
[links]: • compression reinforcement
Description: The
brick dome uses four iron chains for a compression
ring; it is buttressed by the apses and supported
internally by four massive piers more than 18
m thick. Bramante's original floor plan called
for the dome over a Greek cross plan. Michelangelo
designed the dome; after his death Giacomo della
Porta and Domenico Fontana executed the dome,
altering the shape to make it steeper and taller
than Michelangelo's design. The dome was finally
completed under Sixtus V; Gregory XIV ordered
the erection of the lantern.
Description Source:
[link]: Millon, Henry A. and Craig Hugh
Smyth. Michelangelo architect: the facade of
San Lorenzo and the drum and dome of Saint Peter's.
Milan: Olivetti, 1988.
Related Work:
Relationship
Type: [controlled]: part of
[link to
Related Work]: Saint Peter's Basilica (Vatican
City, Rome, Italy)
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