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St. Peter's Square, Vatican City - Architecture; photo wallpapers: Saint Peter's Square,
or Saint Peter's Piazza (Italian: Piazza San Pietro), is located
directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal
enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of
Borgo). The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by
Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope
Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the
greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either
from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the
Vatican Palace" (Norwich 1975 p 175). Bernini had been working on the
interior of St. Peter's for decades; now he gave order to the space
with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric, the
simplest order in the classical vocabulary, not to compete with the
palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an
unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke emotions of
awe. The site's possibilities were under many constraints from existing
structures (illustration, right). The massed accretions of the Vatican
Palace crowded the space to the right of the basilica's façade; the
structures needed to be masked without obscuring the papal apartments.
The obelisk marked a center, and a granite fountain by Carlo Maderno
stood to one side: Bernini made the fountain appear to be one of the
foci of the ellipse embraced by his colonnades and eventually matched
it on the other side, in 1675, just five years before his death. The
trapezoidal shape of the piazza, which creates a heightened perspective
for a visitor leaving the basilica and has been praised as a
masterstroke of Baroque theater (illustration, below right), is largely
a product of site constraints. The colossal Tuscan colonnades, four
St. Peter's Square, Vatican City - Architecture; photo wallpapers: Saint Peter's Square,
or Saint Peter's Piazza (Italian: Piazza San Pietro), is located
directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal
enclave within Rome (the Piazza borders to the East the rione of
Borgo). The open space which lies before the basilica was redesigned by
Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1656 to 1667, under the direction of Pope
Alexander VII, as an appropriate forecourt, designed "so that the
greatest number of people could see the Pope give his blessing, either
from the middle of the façade of the church or from a window in the
Vatican Palace" (Norwich 1975 p 175). Bernini had been working on the
interior of St. Peter's for decades; now he gave order to the space
with his renowned colonnades, using the Tuscan form of Doric, the
simplest order in the classical vocabulary, not to compete with the
palace-like façade by Carlo Maderno, but he employed it on an
unprecedented colossal scale to suit the space and evoke emotions of
awe. The site's possibilities were under many constraints from existing
structures (illustration, right). The massed accretions of the Vatican
Palace crowded the space to the right of the basilica's façade; the
structures needed to be masked without obscuring the papal apartments.
The obelisk marked a center, and a granite fountain by Carlo Maderno
stood to one side: Bernini made the fountain appear to be one of the
foci of the ellipse embraced by his colonnades and eventually matched
it on the other side, in 1675, just five years before his death. The
trapezoidal shape of the piazza, which creates a heightened perspective
for a visitor leaving the basilica and has been praised as a
masterstroke of Baroque theater (illustration, below right), is largely
a product of site constraints. The colossal Tuscan colonnades, four
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