St. Peter's Basilica interior

Bronze main portal made for Old St. Peter's by Filarete in 1445	Bronze panel from Filarete's door showing St. Paul sentenced by Nero	Panel from Filarete's 1445 bronze door showing the Martyrdom of St. Peter	Bronze panel of St. Peter consigning the keys to Pope Eugenius IV
Stucco ceiling of the portico with the coat-of-arms of Paul V	Bernini's relief "Pasce Oves Maes" between St. Telesphorus and St. Xystus over the main portal	The Door of Death by Giacomo Manzł (1960-64)	Bronze panel from the Door of Good and Evil, St. Peter's
Detail of the Door of Good and Evil by Luciano Minguzzi (1970-1977)	Papal coat-of-arms of Pope John XXIII on the portico floor, St. Peter's Basilica	Door of the Sacraments by Venanzio Crochetti (1965), the regular entrance to St. Peter's	Stepping into St. Peter's Basilica through the Door of the Sacraments
Rays of sunlight through the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, The Vatican	Nave with a ray of light, St. Peter's Basilica	Inside St. Peter's Basilica	Central aisle, St. Peter's Basilica
Main altar, St. Peter's Basilica	Michaelangelo's Pieta, St. Peter's Basilica	Pietą - Michelangelo (1499)	Pietą (The Pity) Michelangelo
"Michelangelo Buonarroti of Florence Created This" - the only piece he ever signed	"MICHAEL. ANGELUS. BONAROTUS. FLORENT. FACIEBAT"	Pietą - Michelangelo	The Virgin Mary is depicted young since “Women who are pure in soul and body never grow old.”
Ever since a nut (Australian) attacked the Pietą in 1972, it's been kept behind glass	Pietą - Michelangelo	Pietą - Michelangelo	Mosaic of St. Peter, Basilica di San Pietro
Monument to Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) who relinquished the throne to convert to Catholicism	Monument to Pope Leo XII by Giuseppe de Fabris (1835)	Monument to Pope Leo XII (1823-1829)	Chapel of St. Sebastian (Tomb of Pope Innocent XI) St. Peter's Basilica
Mosaic of St. Sebastian after a painting by Domenichino	Tomb of Matilda of Canossa (1046-1115) by Bernini, ca 1635	Monument to Pope Innocent XII (1691-1700) by Filippo della Valle, 1746	Monument to Pope Gregory XIII by Camillo Rusconi, 1723. Wisdom raises the drapery revealing science
Allegory of Religion holding the tablets of Law - Gregory XIII monument	Monument to Pope Gregory XIII (1572-85) of Gregorian calendar fame	Papal coat-of-arms of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)	Altar of St. Jerome with a 1744 mosaic of Domenichino's "Last Communion of St. Jerome", Tomb of Pope John XXIII
Monument to Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) by Luigi Amici, ca 1850	Altar of Our Lady of Succor (12th C.) St. Peter's Basilica	Altar of Our Lady of Succor (12th C.) St. Peter's Basilica	Altar of St. Basil with a 1751 mosaic after a painting by Pietro Subleyras
Monument to Pope Benedict XIV (1740-1758) b Pietro Bracci, 1769	Tomb of Clement XIII (1758-1769) by Antonio Canova, 1792	Detail of Canova's Tomb of Pope Clement XIII	Detail of Canova's Tomb of Pope Clement XIII
Bronze statue of St. Peter (5th or 13th C.)	Pilgrims have been kissing his foot for centuries	St. Peter's Basilica	Beneath the main dome of St. Peter's Basilica
St. Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, by Andrea Bolgi, 1635	St. Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine, by Andrea Bolgi, 1635	St. Veronica, the woman who wiped Jesus' face on the way to the Crucifixion, by Francesco Mochi, 1629	St. Andrew, the brother of St. Peter and 1st Apostle, by Francois Duquesnoy, 1635
St. Longiunus, the Roman centurion who speared Christ with the Holy Lance, by Bernini, 1635	The Tribune (apse) with the Altar of the Chair of St. Peter, by Bernini 1666	Altar of the Chair of St. Peter by Bernini, 1666	Alabaster window of the Holy Spirit as a dove above St. Peter's Chair
Michelangelo's dome, St. Peter's Basilica, finished by Giacomo della Porta in 1590	Michelangelo's dome, 120m, St. Peter's Basilica	Bernini's Baldaquin (1633) over the Papal Altar	Bernini's Baldaquin (1633) over the Papal Altar
Bernini's Baldaquin is 29m tall and weighs over 6000 kg	Papal Altar (1594) Basilica of St. Peter	High Altar of St. Peter's Basilica	High Altar of St. Peter's Basilica
Mosaic of St. Luke the Evangelist, St. Peter's Basilica	Mosaic of St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter's Basilica	Mosaic of St. Mark the Evangelist, St. Peter's Basilica	St. Francis Cabrini (1850-1917) founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, by Enrico Tadolini, 1947
Mosaic of St. Matthew the Evangelist above the Baldaquin	St. Cajetan Thiene (1480-1547) founder of the Order of Clerics Regular (Theatines) by Carlo Monaldi, 1738	St. Bruno (1035-1101) founder of the Order of Carthusians, by Michelangelo Slodtz, 1744	St. Juliana Falconieri (1270-1341) founder of the Servites, by Paolo Campi, 1740
St. John of God (1495-1550) founder of the Hospitallers, by Filippo Della Valle, 1745	St. Teresa of Jesus (1515-1582) founder of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, by Filippo Della Valle, 1754	St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1607) founder of the Camellians, by Pietro Pacilli, 1753	St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) by Camillo & Giuseppe Rusconi, 1733
St. Benedict (ca 480-547) founder of the Benedictines, by Antonio Montauti, 1735	Monument to Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667) by Bernini, 1678	Altar of the Sacred Heart, St. Peter's Basilica	Altar of the Sacred Heart with a 1923 mosaic after Carlo Muccioli
Altar of St. Joseph in the left transcept with a mosaic after Achille Funi, 1963	The Punishment of the Couple Ananias and Saphira, from the original painting Cristoforo Roncalli	Monument to Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830) by Pietro Tenerani, 1866	Monument to Pope Pius VIII (1829-1830)
RomeOct08 215.jpg	Altar of St. Gregory the Great (590-604) with a 1772 mosaic after Sacchi, 1625	Altar of St. Gregory the Great, famous for "Gregorian Chant"	Monument to Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) by protestant sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen ca 1830
Altar of the Transfiguration, St. Peter's Basilica	The 1767 mosaic on the Altar of the Transfiguration is after a 1520 painting by Rafael	Central relief from the Monument to Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689) showing victory over the Turks in Vienna, 1683	Monument to Pope Leo XI (1605) by Algardi, 1644
Monument to Pope Leo XI - not bad for a 27 day reign	Altar of the Immaculate Conception with mosaic after a painting by Pietro Bianchi, 1740	Monument to St. Pius X (1903-1914) by Pietro Astorri, 1923	Monument to St. Pius X, St. Peter's
Presentation Chapel with the body of St. Pius X	Monument to the Stuarts (James III, Bonnie Prince Charlie and Henry) by Antonio Canova, 1829	Detail of an angel on Canova's Stuart Monument	Monument to the James III of Scotland (1688-1766) and his sons by Canova, 1829
Monument to Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702-1735) by Pietro Bracci, 1742	Maria Clementina Sobieska, neice of King John II of Poland, wife of James III Stuart	Coat-of-Arms of Pope Piux XI on the floor of St. Peter's Basilica	Coat-of-Arms of Pope Innocent X (1644-1655) on the floor of St. Peter's Basilica
Entrance to the Sacristy and Treasury Museum	A list of all the Popes buried at St. Peter's since St. Peter	Popes listed with year of death	Up on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica
Eagle, reminiscent of Imperial Rome, on either side of the central portal to St. Peter's Basilica	Relief sculpture over the central portal to St. Peter's Basilica