Journey of Ancient Architecture: St. Peter’s Square

Journey of Ancient Architecture Ancient Roman Piazza Did Pieta Piazza Did Pieta = SST. Pewters Square Figure 1 SST. Pewters Square Top View prefatory Information Location Vatican City Figure 2Flag of Vatican City Year consecrated 1626 Architect(s) 1 . Donate Aberrant 2. Antonio dad Seasonal the younger 3. Michelangelo 4. Capo Borzoi dad Avignon 5. Giaconda Della Porto 6. Carlo unexampled 7. Giant Lorenz Bernie Architectural style Renaissance and Baroque Groundbreaking 18 April 1506 Completed 18 November 1626 Figure 3 map of Vatican City Figure 4Mussolinis approach to SST cocksuckersFigure 5Mussolinis approach to SST Peters SST. Pewters Two rows of houses were demolished by Mussolini in 1936 to build this boulevard from Piazza San Pitter across the Tiber River to the cracker bonbon of Rome. This was said to be Mussolinis symbolic way of honoring the conciliation between the Vatican and the Italian government. Figure 6SST. Peter Piazza Figure 7SST. Peter Piazza Every Sunday at no on, people gather to recite the Angelus and receive the Popes blessing from his window. * built by Bernie between 1657-1667 * SST.Pewters Square has the flesh of an immense ellipse, 320 m. Long and 240 m. Did, at its broadest point. * Once the basilica had been built, it was felt that a space should be created in front of it with a capacity sufficient to nurse the mass of people who would flock here to take part in the most solemn functions. * A red porphyry rock mark the smudge in the northwest corner of the Square where Pope John Paul II was shot. Figure 8The Obelisk Figure 9 Lower rive of The Obelisk * It was hewn from a single block and stands 25. 31 m high on a base 8. Mm wide, weighing about 330 tons. * This sticker was from Egypt and was brought to Rome by Emperor Caligula in 37 AD. It is the second highest obelisk in Rome, after the Lateran one, and the solo one devoid of hieroglyphics, but with Latin inscriptions. * The obelisk rests upon four accountant lions, each with two bodies whose tails intertwine. * The inscriptions on the north and south sides of the base have texts written by Cardinal Silvia Antonio as a memorial to the moving of the obelisk. The east and west sides have exorcist formulas.Figure 10The Wind Rose West hostile I West jointure West Opponent Maestro I coupling West Maestro I North North West Dormant Maestro I North Attractant I North North eastward Dormant Greece I North eastward Greece I East North East Greece Elevate I East Elevate I East South East Elevate Sirocco I South East Sirocco I South South East Castro Sirocco I South Castro I South South West Castro Liberace I South West Liberace I West South West Opponent Liberace I * The Wind Rose uses the compass points to show the different wind directions.Figure 1 1 fountain * Antics fountain built in 1614 by Carlo Modern on the Saint Pewters Square. * Located at both side of The Obelisk and all of them are parallel. SST Pewters Basilica Basilica did San Pitter 1450 Successive plans Brakemans plan * The foundation stone was laid in 1506 when the plan was selected. * This plan was in the form of an enormous Greek Cross with a dome inspired by that of the huge aviator Roman temple, the Pantheon. The main difference between Brakemans design and that of the Pantheon is that where the dome of the Pantheon is supported by a continuous wall, that of the new basilica was to be supported only on four large piers. * Aberrant was replaced