Title

'The Great Altar, with its baldacchino, 95 feet high, St. Peter's Church, Rome, Italy', c1909. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

'The Great Altar, with its baldacchino, 95 feet high, St. Peter's Church, Rome, Italy', c1909. Large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, designed by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini built 623-1634. To be viewed on a Sun Sculpture stereoscope made by Underwood & Underwood. [The Rose Stereograph Company, Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington & London, c1909]

Credit line

Photo12/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19G32_054

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

61,0Mb (2,5Mb) / 15,4in x 15,4in / 4608 x 4626 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian interior religious architecture country Rome lazio religion bronze cathedral church decorative Christianity canopy Baroque Vatican City Vatican st peters square piazza location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic vintage inside altar B&W 17th century cinematography Indoors black & white black and white B W Roman Catholicism 1900s 20th century stereoscope seventeenth century The Print Collector high altar St Peter's Basilica TGN St Peter's Square photograph Baldachin Baldaquin Unknown Gian Lorenzo Bernini Bernini Giovanni Bernini Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini Gianlorenzo Bernini Bernini Gianlorenzo Underwood & Underwood Baroque Era Lorenzo Rose Stereograph Co Rose Stereograph Company Gian Lorenzo Lorenzo Bernini photograph