 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) |
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 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 |