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Description: Interior of the nave of old St. Peter's with a view of the porphyry stone in the...

TitleInterior of the nave of old St. Peter's with a view of the porphyry stone in the center of the floor

Creator nameGrimaldi, Giacomo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation datec. 1619

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationBiblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vatican City

https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Barb.lat.2733.pt.1

Accession numberBarb. lat. 2733, fols. 104v–105r

SubjectsBasilicas--ItalyChurch architecture--Designs and plansDrawing, Italian

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8. Twin Towers

Sarah McPhee

Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican

~BERNINI’S BELL tower lay dismembered on the roof of St. Peter’s until 1653, when Innocent X gave the order to sell off the parts.See Doc. 39. In the decades that followed, documents record the sale and transportation of the materials. Fragments of Bernini’s...

Author

Sarah McPhee

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.190-212

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00028.012

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19452&redirecttoanchor=44368

Chapter subject tags:Bell towers--ItalyCoronationsChurch architecture--ItalyPapacy--HistoryArchitecture, Baroque--Italian influences

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