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Work Record
Class [controlled]:
• architecture • European art
*Work
Type [link]: basilica
*Title/Name: Saint
Peter's Basilica Title
Type: preferred
*Title/Name: Basilica
di San Pietro Title
Type: alternate
*Title/Name: New
Saint Peter's Title
Type: alternate
*Title/Name: San
Pietro in Vaticano Title
Type: alternate
*Creator
Display: designed and constructed
by a long series of architects, including Donato
Bramante (Italian, 1444-1514), Raphael Sanzio
(Italian, 1483-1520), Antonio da Sangallo the
Elder (Italian, ca. 1455-1534), Michelangelo Buonarroti
(Italian, 1475-1564), Giacomo della Porta (Italian,
1532/1533-1602/1604), Carlo Maderno (Italian,
ca. 1556 -1629), and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian,
1598-1680)
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Bramante, Donato
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Buonarroti, Michelangelo
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Fra Giocondo
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Ligorio, Pirro
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Maderno, Carlo
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Peruzzi, Baldassare
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Porta, Giacomo della
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Sangallo, Antonio
da, the elder
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Sangallo, Giuliano
da
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Sansovino, Andrea
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Sanzio, Raphael
*Role
[controlled]: architect
[link]: Vignola, Giacomo da
*Creation
Date Display: designs begun 1451,
constructed 1506-1615, piazza finished 1667
[controlled]: Qualifier:
design •
Earliest: 1451
• Latest: 1667 | Qualifier:
construction
• Earliest: 1506
• Latest: 1615 | Qualifier:
piazza •
Earliest: 1667
• Latest: 1667
*Subject
[links]:
• architecture • religion and
mythology • Saint Peter (Christian
iconography) • cathedrals •
Papal power • plazas • columns
• domes
*Current
Location [link]: Vatican
City (Rome, Italy)
*Measurements:
height of dome: 138 m (452 feet); length of main
structure: 187 m (615 feet)
[controlled] Extent:
dome Value:
138 Unit: m
Type: height |
Value: 187
Unit: m Type: length
*Materials
and Techniques: load-bearing masonry
construction
Material [links]:
• masonry Technique
[links]: • bearing walls
Style [link
to authority]: • Renaissance • Baroque
Description: A
three-aisled Latin cross with a dome at the crossing,
the basilica had a long building history and many
architects. It was begun under Pope Julius II
in 1506 to replace Old Saint Peter's, and completed
in 1615 under Paul V. The original plan was a
Greek cross by Donato Bramante; when he died in
1514, Leo X commissioned Raphael, Fra Giocondo,
and Giuliano da Sangallo to continue the work,
changing the Greek-cross plan to a Latin cross
with three aisles separated by pillars. After
Raphael died in 1520, Antonio da Sangallo the
Elder, Baldassare Peruzzi, and Andrea Sansovino
continued the work. Sangallo died in 1546 and
Paul III commissioned Michelangelo as chief architect.
Michelangelo died in 1564, when the drum for the
dome was nearly complete. Pirro Ligorio and Giacomo
da Vignola continued the work. Under Gregory XIII,
Giacomo della Porta was put in charge. Under Clement
VIII, the apse of Old Saint Peter's was razed.
Paul V (pope 1605-1621) appointed Carlo Maderno
to extend the nave. Maderno also completed the
façade and added an extra bay on each end to support
two planned campaniles; only one was built, in
1637, using another design by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Under Alexander VII (pope 1655-1667), Bernini
laid out the Piazza San Pietro, enclosed by colonnades,
and added the fountains.
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]: larger context
for
[link to
Related Work]: Dome of Saint Peter's
Relationship
Type: [controlled]: larger context
for
[link to
Related Work]: Piazza San Pietro
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