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ID: 700000166
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000166
Record Type: Built Work
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Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (basilicas (works by form); principal architects: Donato Bramante, Giacomo della Porta, ...; second church on the site; gro...; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...)
Note: Papal church located within Vatican City. It replaces an earlier basilica constructed under Constantine the Great. The basilica is cruciform in shape, with an elongated nave in the Latin cross form but the early designs were for a centrally planned structure and this is still in evidence in the architecture. It is constructed on the site where at the beginning of the first century the gardens of Agrippina lay. Her son, Caius Caligula, built a circus there, in the spina of which he erected the celebrated obelisk without hieroglyphics which was brought from Heliopolis and now stands in the Piazza di S. Pietro. Located in: Rome, Italy
Titles:
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano (preferred,C,U,LC,Italian-P,U,N,English,L,N)
Saint Peter's Basilica (C,U,D,English-P,U,U)
New St. Peter's (C,U,English,U,U)
Saint Peter’s Cathedral (C,U,English,U,U)
كاتدرائية القديس بطرس (C,U,Arabic,U,U)
聖伯多祿大殿 (C,U,Chinese,U,U)
Basilique de Saint-Pierre (C,U,French,U,U)
Petersdom (C,U,German,U,U)
Peterskirche (C,U,German,U,U)
Sankt Peter im Vatikan (C,U,German,U,U)
Βασιλική του Αγίου Πέτρου (C,U,Greek,U,U)
S. Pietro in Vaticano (C,U,BT,Italian,U,U)
Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano (C,U,Italian,U,U)
Basilica vaticana (C,U,Italian,U,U)
Basilica Sancti Petri (C,U,Latin-P,U,U)
Sanctus Petrus (C,U,OR,Latin,U,U)
Basílica de San Pedro (C,U,Spanish,U,U)
Basílica papal de San Pedro (C,U,Spanish,U,U)
St. Peter’s (C,U,undetermined,U,U)
St. Peter's Basilica (C,U,undetermined,,N)
Catalog Level: item
Work Types:
basilica (work by form) [300170443] (preferred)
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by form>, <single built works by form: massing or shape>)
church (building) [300007466]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings)
cathedral (work by context) [300007501]
..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings, churches (buildings), <church buildings by location or context>)

Classifications:
architecture (preferred)
European art

Creation Date: second church on the site; groundbreaking 1506, constructed 1546 to 1564 and 1590, consecrated in 1626

Creator Display:
principal architects: Donato Bramante, Giacomo della Porta, Michelangelo, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Carlo Maderno, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini [preferred,VP]
Bramante, Donato (c.1444-1514), architect ; Michelangelo (1475-1564), architect; Raphael (1483-1520), architect; Maderno, Carlo (1556-1629), architect; Borromini, Francesco (1599-1667), architect; Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680), architect; Porta, Giacomo della (1532/33-1602/04), architect [,BWR]
architect Buonarroti, Michelangelo (Italian sculptor, painter, architect, 1475-1564) [500010654]
architect Bramante, Donato (Italian architect and painter, 1444-1514) [500019098]
architect Maderno, Carlo (Italian architect, born 1555-1556, died 1629) [500007668]
architect Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (Italian sculptor, architect, 1598-1680) [500032022]
architect Porta, Giacomo della (Italian architect, sculptor, 1532/1533-1602 or 1604 ) [500025366]
architect Sangallo, Antonio da, the younger (Italian architect and military engineer, 1484-1546) [500017734]
architect Vignola, Jacopo da (Italian architect, painter, 1507-1573) [500024808]
patron Julius II, Pope (Italian pope, patron, 1443-1513) [500281862]
Raphael (Italian painter, architect, 1483-1520) [500023578]
Borromini, Francesco (Italian architect, 1599-1667) [500028306]
Locations:
Current: Roma [7000874] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Address Note: +41.902222,+12.453333; Rome, Italy
Other: Santa Sede [7001168] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)
Display Materials: bearing masonry; marble, stone, wood, brick; cruciform in shape, with an elongated nave in the Latin cross form
masonry (building materials) [300015332]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, building materials, <masonry and masonry units>)
marble (rock) [300011443]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), metamorphic rock)
stone (worked rock) [300011176]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)
brick (clay material) [300010463]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>)
wood (plant material) [300011914]
.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>)
bearing walls [300002557]
.......(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <structural elements and components for structural elements>, structural elements, enclosing structural elements, <walls and wall components>, walls, <walls by function>)
Latin cross plan [300121984]
.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Attributes and Properties (hierarchy name), <attributes and properties by specific type>, form attributes, <form attributes for architecture>, building plan attributes)

Dimensions: length 730 feet (220 m); width 500 feet (150 m); height of dome above street level: 452 feet (138 m)
Events:
consecration: consecrated in 1626

Cultures:
(preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:
Renaissance [300021140] (preferred,N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)
Baroque [300021147] (N/A)
.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <Renaissance-Baroque styles and periods>)

General Subject:
architecture (preferred,isness,undetermined)

Specific Subjects:
pilgrimage center [300008459]
.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Built Complexes and Districts (hierarchy name), complexes (buildings and sites), <complexes by function>, sites (locations)) (AAT)
papal [300025773]
.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in religion and related occupations>, people in religion, clergy, Christian clergy, prelates) (AAT)
Peter, Saint [901000056]
.....((Christian characters, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Outside Iconography:
Code: n 99834177 Term: Peter, Saint
.....Source: Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Code: 11H(Peter) Term: St. Peter
.....Source: Iconclass Illustrated Edition (2022-)

Inscriptions: inscribed below the cornice in a frieze 1 m (3.3 feet) in height: IN HONOREM PRINCIPIS APOST PAVLVS V BVRGHESIVS ROMANVS PONT MAX AN MDCXII PONT VII [in honor of the Prince of Apostles, Paul V Borghese, a Roman, Supreme Pontiff, in the year 1612, the 7th of his pontificate]
Related Works:
replaced .... Old Saint Peter's Basilica [700002014] Old St. Peter's in use 4th-16th centuries
..........former structure; unknown architect; commissioned by Constantine I; constructed in 4th century, ra...

List/Hierarchical Position:
..... Built Works
.......... Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures
............... Vatican Complex
Sources and Contributors:
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano........ [GRISC,VP,GCI,BWR]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) n 81013646
........ BWR database (2010-) BWR3786354; BWR3730966
........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)
........ Fletcher, History of Architecture (1996)
........ Fletcher, History of Architecture (1975) 327 ff.; 821 ff.
........ AATA database (1995-)
Saint Peter's Basilica........ [VP]
........ CDWA online (1995-)
........ Fletcher, History of Architecture (1975)
........ New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1979)
........ Gardner's Art Through the Ages (1986) 499-500, 571-575
........ Grove Art Online (2008-) "Pope Julius II [Giuliano della Rovere]" accessed 20 June 2010
New St. Peter's........ [VP]
........ New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1979)
Saint Peter’s Cathedral........ [VP]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
كاتدرائية القديس بطرس........ [VP]
........ Ottoman City Between East and West [online] (1991)
聖伯多祿大殿........ [VP]
........ 陈曦文 基督教与中世纪西欧社会 (1999) 121
Basilique de Saint-Pierre........ [VP]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Petersdom........ [VP]
........ Fletcher, History of Architecture (1987)
Peterskirche........ [VP]
........ Bering, Peterskirche in Rom (2003) title
Sankt Peter im Vatikan........ [VP]
........ Bering, Peterskirche in Rom (2003)
Βασιλική του Αγίου Πέτρου........ [VP]
........ Dēmētrokallēs, Palaiochristianikoi kai vyzantinoi maiandroi (1982) 247, digital
S. Pietro in Vaticano........ [BHA,VP,JPGM]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
........ BHA, Authority file (1973-2003)
........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano........ [VP]
........ New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1979)
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Basilica vaticana........ [VP]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Basilica Sancti Petri........ [VP]
........ New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1979)
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Sanctus Petrus........ [VP]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
........ Grove Art Online (2008-)
Basílica de San Pedro........ [VP]
........ Holy See [official site] (2002-)
Basílica papal de San Pedro........ [VP]
........ Holy See [official site] (2002-)
St. Peter’s........ [VP]
........ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
St. Peter's Basilica........ [BWR]
........ BWR database (2010-)
Subject: ....... [VP,BHA,GRISC,GCI,BWR]
....................... Fletcher, History of Architecture (1975)
....................... Gardner's Art Through the Ages (1986) 499-500, 571-575
....................... Catholic Encyclopedia [online], republished from 1913 edition (2003-)
....................... Great Buildings Online (1997-)
....................... BWR database (2010-) BWR3786354; BWR3730966
....................... Harvard Library BWR contribution (2010-) U31998
....................... BWR SSID (2010-) 3786354; 3730966
....................... BWR DSSC ID (2010-) 29672; 28956
....................... BWR-02 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021) processed 2020-2021
....................... BWR-13 Data Reconciliation (2020-2021)
....................... Avery Index2: BWR Contribution (2010-) 697050
Note:
English ..... [VP]
..... New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967-1979)
..... Fletcher, History of Architecture (1975) 327 ff.; 821 ff.
..... Grove Art Online (2008-)
..... Holy See [official site] (2002-) accessed 4 January 2007
..... Gardner's Art Through the Ages (1986) 499-500, 571-575
..... Fletcher, History of Architecture (1996)
..... BWR database (2010-) BWR3786354
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