Bernini's Baldacchino
1634 · Work
Bernini's thirty-metre bronze canopy on twisting Solomonic columns rises over St Peter's tomb, commissioned by Urban VIII and cast partly from bronze stripped from the Pantheon.
On these timelines: Painting & Sculpture, The Papacy, Master, Arts and Thoughts, Italy (post-476 CE)
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