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St. Peter's Baldachin ( Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy.
St. Peter's Baldacchino is a towering bronze canopy sculpted over the High Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Even though sculpted canopies are ordinary in medieval churches and buildings, the Baldacchino in St. Peter's church was noted for its grandeur and the man who created it, famous Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Feb 27, 2024 · The Vatican announced on Thursday that the soaring baldacchino over the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica will undergo a major restoration.
The gilded bronze monument, which is almost 29 meters tall, rises on four slender twisted columns (which was presented in the basilica on June 29, 1627) which were inspired by the marble columns arranged around Peter's tomb in the ancient basilica.
Jan 11, 2024 · Pope Francis has authorized the first “systematic and complete” restoration of the Baldacchino of St Peter’s Basilica, almost 400 years after work began on Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s baroque masterpiece.
Jan 11, 2024 · VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Four hundred years after its creation, the famed baldachin that sits above the tomb of St. Peter in Rome will be restored ahead of the 2025 Jubilee year in what experts...
Jan 12, 2024 · Gian Lorenzo Bernini's 100-foot-high baldacchino, the massive bronze canopy over the main altar in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, can be seen during Mass celebrated by Pope Francis marking the feast of the Epiphany Jan. 6, 2024.
