St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy.

A baldachin, or baldaquin (from Italian: baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne.

The Baldacchino of St.Peter's basilica was the brainchild of Pope Urban VIII. He took no time to hire his favorite and Italy's finest Baroque-style artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini for the construction. The Baldacchino, grand and imposing, took an astounding nine years to build.

The Baldacchino was created to establish the balance between the long nave and the massive dome. The St. Peter’s Basilica Baldacchino draws the eyes of a viewer from the nave to the ceiling. Apart from the artistic aesthete reason, the Baldacchino is important as it is located above the tomb of St. Peter .

2016年9月7日 · The main altar at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome lies beneath an enormous canopy, held aloft by swirled or Solomonic columns. The structure — called a baldacchino — is meant to bring visual significance to the altar in a church that greatly dwarfs the altar in size.

Rising above the altar is the baldacchino (95ft. canopy), Bernini's masterpiece and first work in St. Peter's. The ancient tomb of St. Peter lies directly below the altar. An interesting scene of a woman in childbirth appears on the eight coat of arms on the pedestals of the baldacchino.

Thanks to the Baldacchino by Bernini, we have a little bit of a bridge between the vastness of this space and the scale of the human body. The Baldacchino is this eight-story-high canopy that marks the exact crossing of the church.

2024年11月11日 · The Baldacchino, the great canopy above the high altar of St. Peter’s Basilica designed by Baroque master architect and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini, has been revealed in its original shining gilded glory after nine months of restoration.

2018年1月31日 · This structure is commonly called the baldacchino or sometimes referred to as the ciborium. Essentially it is a stationary canopy supported by four columns and stands directly over the main...

From the apse behind the baldacchino is the beautiful reliquary, also by Bernini, that encloses the “ Chair ” of Saint Peter, the throne where the Pope sat, taken from the medieval basilica. At the center, above the altar, rises the bronze Baldacchino designed by Bernini during the Baroque era. It has a very peculiar story.