St Peter's Dome Reflected.Rome
by Jennie Breeze
Title
St Peter's Dome Reflected.Rome
Artist
Jennie Breeze
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Photograph - Original Img_5357
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St. Peter's Basilica is a Late Renaissance church located within Vatican City.The central space is dominated both externally and internally by one of the largest domes in the world. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and remains the largest church in the world. The dome of St. Peter's rises to a total height of 448.1 ft. While it is neither the mother church of the Catholic Church nor the Catholic Roman Rite cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom". from the floor of the basilica to the top of the external cross. It is the tallest dome in the world. Its internal diameter is 136.1 ft., slightly smaller than two of the three other huge domes that preceded it, those of the Pantheon of Ancient Rome, 142 ft. and Florence Cathedral of the Early Renaissance, 144 ft..
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