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DomeStPetersVatican

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Image ID :	2742412443_f7493ccb70_b
View/Description :	Exterior view of the dome
Image Creator :	i.averbuch
Image Date :	Aug 2008
Image Source :	http://www.flickr.com/photos/9599848@N06/2742412443/
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Rights Owner :	i.averbuch
URL to larger image :	http://www.flickr.com/photos/9599848@N06/2742412443/sizes/o/

Image ID :	Vatikan Szent Peter kupola
View/Description :	Interior of the dome
Image Creator :	Pasztilla
Image Date :	Jan 2007
Image Source :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vatikan_Szent_Peter_kupola.jpg
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Rights Owner :	GNU Free Documentation
URL to larger image :	http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Vatikan_Szent_Peter_kupola.jpg

Work ID :	DomeSt.PetersVatican
Title :	Dome of St Peters Basilica
Creator/Agent :	Porta, Giacomo Della [ULAN] Fontana, Carlo [ULAN] Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo [ULAN]
Date (of work) :	1546, 1585-1590
Location/Site :	Italy [TGN] Lazio [REGION] [TGN] Roma [PROVINCE] Rome [TGN] Holy See [NATION] [TGN] Vatican Vatican City
GIS Coordinates :	+41.902222+12.453333/
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Description :	An ovoid dome topping the basilica of Saint Peters in the Vatican City in Rome.
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Measurements :	Diameter: 42.3 m Height: 136.57 m (448.06 ft)
Material :	brick double dome
Technique :
Style/Period/ Group/Movement :	Renaissance [AAT] High Renaissance [AAT]
Cultural Context :	European [AAT] Italian [AAT] Vatican City Catholic Church Roman Catholicism [AAT]
Subject :	Religious buildings [AAT] Religious Churches [AAT] Church Basilicas [AAT] Basilica domes (architectural element) [AAT]
Relation :	Part of the Basilica of Saint Peters in the Vatican complex
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Text Reference :	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica
Keywords :	paraboloid, elliptical, engineering, collaboration, cupola
Notes :	The dome was designed first by Bramante (1503) and then by Michelangelo, who in 1546 conceived of a spherical dome, only the drum of which was completed at his death in 1564. Giacomo Della Porta and the engineer Carlo Fontana redesigned and vaulted the dome from 1585-1590; the dome was completed with Fontana's lantern and ball in 1593.

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Comments (1)

This is kind of a good one I thought - part or whole? What is the work? If we just did the St. Peters Basilica as the work, how can we express the many collaborators/participants?
Heather

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