The Architecture of St Peter's Basilica


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View into Old St Peter's looking West
Cross section of Old St Peter's

Floorplan of Old St Peter's by Tiberio Alfarano
Floorplan of Old St Peter's with the present
basilica superimposed, by Tiberio Alfarano, 1570



 

Maerten van Heemskerck sketch of St Peter's construction
Maerten van Heemskerck , view of the new
construction in the area of the dome
Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz,
Kupferstichkabinett, Berliner Skizzenbuch, II, Folio 52r

 

 

Reconstructed View of Medieval Old St Peter's
Reconstruction of Medieval St Peter's
H.W. Brewer, 1892

Giuliano da Sangallo plan for St Peter's
Giuliano da Sangallo plan for St Peter's
Florence, Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, 7A

 

Giuliano da Sangallo plan for St Peter's
Giuliano da Sangallo
presentation drawing for St Peter's
Florence, Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, 8Ar

Fra Giocondo plan for St Peter's

 

 

Fra Giocondo
presentation
drawing for
St Peter's

Florence, Uffizi,
Gabinetto Disegni
e Stampe, 7A

Part of Bramante's plan for St Peter's
Donato Bramante
presentation drawing for St Peter's
Florence, Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, 1A

Michelangelo's plan for St Peter's
Michelangelo's plan for St Peter's,
published in Filippo Bonanni,
Numismata Pontificum Romanorum Templi Vaticani
Fabbricam indicantia, 2nd edition, Rome 1715, tav 17
Etienne Duperac's cross section of Michelangelo Plan for St Peter's
Etienne Duperac
section of the project
by Michelangelo for St Peter's

Carlo Maderno's plan for St Peter's
Carlo Maderno's plan
published in Filippo Bonanni,
Numismata Pontificum Romanorum Templi Vaticani
Fabbricam indicantia, 2nd edition, Rome 1715, tav 28
Maerten van Heemskerck sketch of St Peter's construction
Maerten van Heemskerck,
view of the Vatican Basilica, circa 1536
(Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berliner Skizzenbuch I, f. 13r)

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