ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 17 Gianlorenzo Bernini Baldacchino St Peter s 1624 o An altar 92 ft high made of bronze o Only the pope can give mass here o Has curves that are very characteristic of the Baroque styles o Solomonic columns twisting serpent like pillars Spirals upwards Has a rhetorical and historical reference Solonon had similar ones in front of his palace o Sense of miraculousness from the conceit An extended metaphor The entire construction looks like it is being held together by angels holding vines Bernini designed the massive decorations in the back of the church to be seen through the baldacchino Dreamy miragelike quality o Pasquino sculpture from the 15th century Citizens of Rome put complaints about the government on it One man complained that the bronze for the baldacchino was stolen from the Pantheon Cathedra Petri Chair of St Peter Symbolic of St Peter his power and the unbroken series of popes following The original chair is supposedly inside the construction Mystical element to it angels and other celestial beings are portrayed as if they are on fire These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute
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