St. Peter's Baldacchino, Baroque masterpiece in Vatican City
St. Peter's Baldachin is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica.
Designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, it was intended to mark, in a monumental way, the place of Saint Peter's tomb underneath.
The Baldachin serves as a visual focus within the basilica; it itself is a very large structure and forms a visual mediation between the enormous scale of the building and the human scale of the people officiating at the religious ceremonies at the papal altar beneath its canopy.
The Baldachin is located directly under the dome of the basilica.
It is the largest bronze piece of work in the world.
Inception: 1620s
Creator: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Material: bronze
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