ساحة القديس بطرس

منظر فوقي للساحة

بنيت امام كنيسة القديس بطرس في مدينة الفاتيكان و يتوضع في وسط الساحة مسلة يروى انها كانت في الساحة التي استشهد فيها القديس بطرس و تشكل الساحة مع الكنيسة شكل مفتاح الذي يرمز للقديس بطرس.

St. Peter's Square

At the centre of the square is an ancient Egyptian obelisk, erected at the current site in 1586. Gian Lorenzo Bernini designed the square almost 100 years later, including the massive Doric colonnades,^[1]^[2] four columns deep, which embrace visitors in "the maternal arms of Mother Church". A granite fountain constructed by Bernini in 1675 matches another fountain designed by Carlo Maderno in 1613.

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St. Peter's Square within Vatican City

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التاريخ

Fresco of St. Peter's Square c. 1587, before the dome of the new St. Peter's Basilica or the façade had been built^[3]

St. Peter's Square and Basilica, 1909

رواق الأعمدة

St. Peter's Square colonnades

المسلة المصرية

At the center of the ovato tondo stands an uninscribed Egyptian obelisk of red granite, 25.5 m (84 ft) tall, supported on bronze lions and surmounted by the Chigi arms in bronze, in all 41 m (135 ft) to the cross on its top. The obelisk was originally erected at Heliopolis, Egypt, by an unknown pharaoh.

A reconstruction of the Old Basilica of St Peters in 1450; at left is the obelisk

St. Peter's Square obelisk

الرصف

The paving is varied by radiating lines in travertine, to relieve what might otherwise be a sea of setts. In 1817 circular stones were set to mark the tip of the obelisk's shadow at noon as the sun entered each of the signs of the zodiac, making the obelisk a gigantic sundial's gnomon. Below is a view of St. Peter's Square from the cupola (the top of the dome) which was taken in June 2007.

View of Rome from the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica, June 2007

Spina

St. Peter's Square (facing St. Peter's Basilica), and the obelisk from the Circus of Nero

انظر أيضاً

الهامش

^ William Tronzo, ed., St. Peter's in the Vatican, Cambridge University Press, 2005, page 149.
^ Franco Mormondo, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2011, page 203.
^ Decker, Heinrich (1969). The Renaissance in Italy: Architecture • Sculpture • Frescoes. Viking Press. p. 282. ISBN 9780500231074.