San Andrea al Quirinale, Rome (1658-70)

Exterior; note the curving walls running forward from the entrance facade to frame a small piazza in front of the church.

Interior. Note how the staue of Saint Andrew appears to be breaking through the segmental pediment in his ascent to heaven.











St Peter's, Rome

Etching by Piranesi showing Bernini's colonnades, begun in 1656, which form a large oval piazza in front Carlo Maderno's facade. Bernini worked inside the church creating a baldacchino below the crossing, the Cathedra Petri in the apse, and the Scala Regia (the staircase adjacent to the church which leads up to the Sistine Chapel, below).

Cathedra Petri baldacchino

Four Rivers Fountain, Piazza Navona, Rome, 1648-51

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