Rome Italy - Vatican: Tomb of Pope Alexander VII by Bernini
Tomb of Pope Alexander VII by Bernini
Tomb of Pope Alexander VII St. Peter's Basilica Gian Lorenzo Bernini 1598-1680 Vatican City
recorded on December 19, 2013
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Bernini's Angels in Vatican
The Pope Alexander VII is a sculptural monument designed and partially executed by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini
ST. PETER'S BASILICA AND ST. PETER'S SQUARE-What It All Means!
St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Peter’s Square have been the destination for millions of Roman Catholic pilgrims for centuries. St. Peter’s Basilica is the center of Christianity and was built on the site of St. Peter’s tomb. However, aside from its religious significance, both are architectural landmarks and both were worked on by many Renaissance masters including Michelangelo and Bernini. In fact, the inside of St. Peter’s Basilica may be the greatest museum in the world. The magnitude of the works of art is overwhelming. There are massive monuments and sculptures everywhere including The Pieta by Michelangelo and The Baldachin and Cathedra Petri by Bernini. In this video, you will learn the history behind the creation of many of these works of art, which I believe makes this experience even more enjoyable.
0:00 Introduction and history of St. Peter's Basilica
2:19 St. Peter's Basilica facade
4:57 St. Peter's Basilica dome
6:09 St. Peter's Square
6:50 The Swiss Guard
7:47 The Holy Door
8:27 The Atrium
8:46 Entering St. Peter's Basilica
9:32 The Pieta by Michelangelo
10:30 Holy Water Fonts
10:48 Central Nave
11:23 Papal Altar/The Baldachin by Bernini
12:33 Mosaics of the Four Evangelists
13:10 Interior of The Dome
14:19 The Piers
14:58 Cathedra Petri (Throne of St. Peter) by Bernini
16:55 Bronze Statue of St. Peter
17:29 Statue of St. Longinus by Bernini
18:07 Chapel of St. Sebastian/Tomb of Pope John Paul II
18:29 Statue of Pius XII
18:54 Altar of Transfiguration/Tomb of Innocent XI
19:57 Monument to Pope Leo XII
20:23 Monument to Christina of Sweden
20:40 Funeral Monument to Alexander VII
21:16 Innocent XII Monument
21:36 Funeral Monument to Countess Matilda by Bernini
22:16 Funeral Monument to Innocent VIII
23:05 Statue of Pius X
23:43 Chapel of Presentation
24:09 Crystal Coffin of Pius X
24:37 Monument to Benedict XIV
25:18 Founder Statues: St. Bruno, St. Ignatius, St. Cajetan, St. Falconieri
26:14 Altar of St. Jerome
26:57 Statue of Empress St. Helen
27:21 The Veronica
27:53 Altar of St. Leo The Great
28:26 Altar of St. Joseph
29:16 Monument to Pius VIII
29:42 List of all Popes buried in St. Peter's Basilica
30:14 Altar of St. Gregory the Great
30:57 Monument to Pius VII
31:35 Altar of the Lie
32:20 The Chapel of Baptism
33:00 Monument to the Stuarts
Sources: Guide to St. Peter's Basilica; Libreria Etitrice Vaticana; Ats Italia Editrice srl ©2005
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Wikipedia: St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's Square
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A brand new experience for visiting St. Peter's Basilica! Walk through the most important christian church of the world.
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is a must-see. This is a UNIQUE step by step exclusive guide among the monuments and major points of interest.
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Included in this guide:
The Door of Death
The Holy Door
Michelangelo's Piety
Bernini's Baldachin
Monument of Alexander VII
The Clementine's Chapel
Monument of Pope Pius VII
Tomb of Innocent VIII
The Chapel of the Presentation
Monument of the Last Stuarts
Gregorian Chapel
Chapel of the Santissimo Sacramento
Monument to Matilde di Canossa
Vatican Grottoes
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St Peter's Basilica Church Tour: Major Basilica - Vatican City of Rome
St Peter's Basilica Church Tour: Major Basilica - Vatican City of Rome
This video shows you a 6 mins glimpse of what it’s like to be within the St. Peter’s Basilica.
The St. Peter's Basilica is an Italian Renaissance church in the Vatican City, the papal enclave within the city of Rome located west of the river Tiber and Janiculum Hill and Hadrian’s Mausoleum.
The construction of the church initially commenced on 18 Apr 1506 and was completed 18 Nov 1626 and replaced the old St. Peter’s Basilica which was constructed 400AD. There has been a church on this site since the Roman emperor Constantine. The architects of the church were Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno, Donato Bramante, & Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The church is the largest church in the world and is considered to be the most prominent creation of Renaissance architecture. The St. Peter’s church is often thought of as the most divine Catholic Shrine and one of the greatest churches ever built within Christianity. It is one of 4 churches in the world that possess the title of Major Basilica all of which are in Rome. The church is not a cathedral because it is not a seat of a bishop contrary to popular belief.
The Church is said to have an area of 30,000 square meters (320,000 sq ft) and is 158 meters (518 ft) high. St Peter’s Basilica was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1984. Within the video you’ll likely find it contains some of the most prominent Christian monuments within the church:
The Narthex
Maderno’s Nave, looking towards the chancel
The apse with St Peter’s Cathedral supported by four Doctors of the church
The altar with Bernini’s baldacchino
Bernini’s Cathedral Petri and Gloria
Saint Helena
Saint Longinus by Bernini
Saint Andrew by Francois Duquesnoy
Saint Veronica by Francesco Mochi
Pilgrim touching the foot of Saint Peter Enthroned
The tomb of Alexander VII
The bronze statue of Saint Peter holding the keys of heaven
The Pietà by Michelangelo is in the north aisle
St. Peter’s is well-known for its visiting pilgrimage and for its religious functions. The Pope often presides over a number of these functions throughout the year frequently attracting audiences and spectators from 15,000 to 18,000 people either within the Basilica or the adjoining St. Peters Square. The church is a popular tourist destination attracting millions of people to the city on a yearly basis and is well documented for its rich history and culture. The church has many historical relations, with the Protestant Reformation, Catholic Counter-reformation, the Papacy, and the Early Christian Church. Catholics believe the Basilica is the burial site of Saint Peter, one of Jesus Apostles and also the first Pope.
Rome Italy - Vatican: Mummified Popes Tomb
Mummified Popes Tomb, Cant Remember Name.
Barrelrollman - St Peters Square, Vatican City, Italy 6/2011
Saint Peter's Square is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome. 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. At the center of the ellipse stands an Egyptian obelisk of red granite, 25.5 meters tall, supported on bronze lions and surmounted by the Chigi arms in bronze, in all 41 meters to the cross on its top. It was originally erected at Heliopolis by an unknown pharaoh of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt. The Emperor Augustus had it moved to the Julian Forum of Alexandria, where it stood until year 37 A.D., when Caligula ordered the forum demolished and the obelisk transferred to Rome. He placed it in the center of the Circus, where it would preside over Nero's countless brutal games and Christian executions. It was moved to its current site in 1586 by the engineer-architect Domenico Fontana under the direction of Pope Sixtus V; the engineering feat of re-erecting its vast weight was memorialized in a suite of engravings. The Vatican Obelisk is the only obelisk in Rome that has not toppled since ancient Roman times. Rolling St. Peter's Square was a highlight of visiting Vatican City - keep it rolling at where we're rolling around the world in search of world records while raising money for a great cause! Punch it!
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St. Peter's Basilica stands on the traditional site where the apostle Peter was crucified and buried (under the main altar)
Originally founded by Constantine in 324, St. Peter's Basilica was rebuilt in the 16th century by Renaissance masters including Bramante, Michelangelo and Bernini.
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Take a tour of the George Inness in Italy exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as curator Mark Mitchell discusses two stunning depictions of St. Peter's, Rome.
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Baroque Art - 2 Italy: Sculpture
Second video about the Baroque Art serie. Any doubt? Send me a message.
Historia del Arte:
Land of the Art:
Sculpture is united to architecture. Monumental sculpture. Movement and scenography.
Stefano Maderno
Saint Cecilia
Francesco Mochi
Annunciation: it is a couple of sculptures, the Virgin and an angel.
Alessandro Farnese monument in Piacenza: equestrian sculpture.
Saint Veronica: in San Peter, Rome.
Alessandro Algardi: he did portraits and was the opposite to Bernini, he was more classical.
Tomb of Leo XI
Tomb of Innocent X
Expulsion of Attila: the pope appear as a triumph of the church.
Ercole Ferrata
Angel of Sant’Angelo bridge
Monument of Guilio del Corno
Pietro Bernini
San Martin, Naples
Fontana della Barcaccia (appeared in architecture, in the part of Urbanism)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the great sculptor of this period. Naturalism. He made religious and mythological sculptures. Desire of movement with free composition, imbalance and great realism and expression.
Rape of Proserpina: it shows Pluto taking Proserpina to the Underworld. The realism is astounding, personally I love that detail with the hand.
Goat Amalthea: other mythological theme, the goat who took care of Jupiter at the beginning, while the other gods were devoured by Saturn.
David: despite being a religious topic, it is an excuse to rescue the classic thematic of the greek athletes.
Apollo and Daphne: it represents this mythological episode, and you can see Daphne becoming a tree. He plays here with non finito and it is an sculpture that depends where you see it, you will have a different view.
Santa Bibiana
Constanza Bonarelli
Innocent X
Saint Longinus
Ecstasy of Santa Teresa: it is in the Cornaro chapel. This is the perfect example of scenographic sculpture, incrusted in the architecture. The group is the saint and an angel. The rays are made of bronze. It is fantastic the way he worked the clothes, and also the face of the saint.
Blessed Ludovica Albertoni: very similar to the ecstasy of Saint Terese but only appear a figure.
Tomb of Urban VIII
Tomb of Alexander VII
Fontana del Tritone
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi: the famous fountain in Piazza Navona, with the obelisk. The sculptures that appear are representations of the four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Río de la Plata representing the Americas.
Louis XIV
François I
Constantine of the Vatican: movement.
Throne of Saint Peter: it is in the Vatican. Symmetric composition, representations of the masters, use of bronze and behind there is a window with the holy spirit.
Camillo Rusconi
Gregory XIII
San Andrea
Pietro Bracci
Tomb of Maria Clementina Sobieski
Antonio Corradini
His sculptures are fantastic, you can see the body through the clothes. Truly impressive.
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter
Gerolamo Emiliani
Giuseppe Sanmartino
Cristo Velato
Giacomo Serpotta: he worked with stucco.
Decoration of oratory of Santa Rita (2 images)
San Lorenzo
San Francesco
Filippo Parodi
Glory of Saint Anthony
Music: Spring by Antonio Vivaldi
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Rossino Pieta and Tomb of Julius II
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Rome, Piazza S. Pietro From Google Map..
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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 a sense of awe.
There were 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 centre, and a granite fountain by Carlo Maderno stood to one side: Bernini made the fountain appear to be one of the foci of the ovato tondo 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.
Lost Road of the Popes
Lost Road of the Popes
Beginning with a city in ruin, the Pope under arrest, and Catholicism under seige, Lost Road of the Popes is the untold story of the lost road on which 16th century Rome and its Church made the most profound urban and religious comeback in history.
In little more than a lifetime, fueled by their faith, wealth and mission, we follow the lives of six powerful Popes and their family dynasties and how they take on the task of first rebuilding, then glorifying, the new Rome. They have separate agendas, separate allegiances, and separate fortunes, but one thing in common: the need to build their legacies at Romes most visible, important address: along the road of the Popes and route of Papal processions, known as the Via Papale.
Lost Road of the Popes unfolds the miracle of this remarkable renaissance. How Rome and its Papal rulers not only survived, but were inspired by a Holy road to create the magnificent monuments, churches, art and architecture that defines the city's skyline today. And why that once powerful road has been forgotten.
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Eric Clarks Travel Videos - Rome Italy - Top 18 Churches Church of Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal
Eric Clarks Travel Videos - Rome Italy - Top 18 Churches Church of Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal
From Wikipedia
The Church of Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal (Italian: Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Latin: S. Andreae in Quirinali) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, Italy, built for the Jesuit seminary on the Quirinal Hill.
The church of Sant'Andrea, an important example of Roman Baroque architecture, was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with Giovanni de'Rossi. Bernini received the commission in 1658 and the church was constructed by 1661, although the interior decoration was not finished until 1670. The site previously accommodated a 16th-century church, Sant'Andrea a Montecavallo.
Commissioned by former Cardinal Camillo Francesco Maria Pamphili, with the approval of Pope Alexander VII, Sant'Andrea was the third Jesuit church constructed in Rome, after the Church of the Gesù and Sant'Ignazio. It was to serve the Jesuit novitiate, which was founded in 1566. Bernini considered the church one of his most perfect works; his son, Domenico, recalled that in his later years, Bernini spent hours sitting inside it, appreciating what he had achieved.[1]
It has served as the titular church of Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer since 2007.
The main façade of the church faces onto the Via del Quirinale (formerly the Via Pia), as does Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane further down the road. Unlike San Carlo, Sant’Andrea is set back from the street and the space outside the church is enclosed by low curved quadrant walls. An oval cylinder encases the dome, and large volutes transfer the lateral thrust. The main façade to the street has an aedicular pedimented frame at the center of which a semicircular porch with two Ionic columns marks the main entrance. Above the porch entablature is the heraldic coat of arms of the Pamphili patron.
Inside, the main entrance is located on the short axis of the church and directly faces the high altar. The oval form of the main congregational space of the church is defined by the wall, pilasters and entablature, which frame the side chapels, and the golden dome above. Large paired columns supporting a curved pediment differentiate the recessed space of the high altar from the congregational space.
In contrast to the dark side chapels, the high altar niche is well lit from a hidden source and becomes the main visual focus of the lower part of the interior. As a result, the congregation effectively become ‘witnesses’ to the theatrical narrative of St Andrew which begins in the High Altar chapel and culminates in the dome. Over the High Altar is an oil painting of the Martyrdom of Saint Andrew (1668) by French painter Guillaume Courtois, a depiction which shows Andrew tied to the diagonals of the form of the cross on which he was crucified. Andrew appears for a second time as if he were breaking through the curved pediment of the edicule frame to the high altar; this time he is represented by a white marble sculpture carved by Antonio Raggi. He is shown on a cloud, designating a heavenly appearance, and, with his arm outstretched and gaze cast upwards, he indicates that he is on his way to Heaven as represented by the golden dome, the stucco cherubim heads clustered around the opening to the lantern, and the lantern vault with the Dove of the Holy Ghost.[2] This dramatic visual narrative is sustained not only upwards through the space of the church but employs different artistic modes. Bernini combined painting, sculpture and architecture into a synthesis to create visually the idea of the apotheosis of St Andrew in this spiritual theater. He used a similar synthesis of artistic modes in his design of the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa in the Cornaro Chapel of Santa Maria della Vittoria. This synthesis has been referred to as the ‘unity of the visual arts’.[3]
First chapel on the right, the Chapel of St Francis Xavier houses three canvases by Baciccio depicting the baptism, preaching and Death of St Francis Xavier (1705). In the ceiling, Filippo Bracci painted The Glory of St Francis Xavier. The Chapel of the Passion, also known as the Chapel of the Flagellation, has three canvases with scenes from the Passion of Jesus Christ by Giacinto Brandi: a Deposition, a Flagellation, and a Road to Calvary (1682). To the left of the main altar, the Chapel of Saint Stanislaus Kostka houses the shrine of the saint, an urn of bronze and lapis lazuli made in 1716. The painting above the funerary monument Madonna with child and Saint Stanislaus Kostka is by Carlo Maratta (1687) and a ceiling fresco of Glory of the Saints by Giovanni Odazzi. The last chapel, dedicated to Saint Ignatius of Loyola, houses the paintings Madonna and child and Saints and Adoration of Kings and Shepherds by Ludovico Mazzanti, with a ceiling with Glory of the Angels by Giuseppe Chiari.