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... PETERS
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DATE
1506-1667
STYLES
High Renaissance and Baroque
MATERIALS
Stone and marble
ARCHITECT
Donato Bramante, Michelangelo
HISTORY
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The Basilica of St. ... The basilica was erected with difficulty on the sloping side of Vatican Hill, the floor built out from the hill and over an earlier Roman cemetery. ... Peters uncovered a Roman cemetery. ...
The Roman cemetery on Vatican Hill was evidently located next to the Circus of Nero. ... Peter is the mother-church of the Roman Catholic faith and has remained a sacred site and a place of pilgrimage for many hundreds of years. ...
THE WINDOWS
The stained glass windows in the sanctuary were installed at three different periods of the congregation’s history. ...
Centennial window 1976 centennial window
The infant Jesus with his mother, Mary, as an adoring child looks on The boy Jesus
THE COLOSSEUM
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DATE
AD 71 - 80
STYLE
Imperial Roman
MATERIALS
Stone & Concrete
HISTORY
The Colosseum - the greatest amphitheatre of the antiquity - was built in Rome, Italy, about 1920 years ago. It is considered an architectural and engineering wonder, and remains as a standing proof of both the grandeur and the cruelty of the Roman world. ... It is the one guaranteed building to be seen in any non-Italian film set in Rome
After the splendour of Roman times, the Colosseum was abandoned, and in turn it became a fortress for the medieval clans of the city, a source of building materials, a picturesque scenery for painters, a place of Christian worship. ... Colosseum or Coliseum (though in the antiquity Romans referred to it as to Amphitheatrum Caesareum), was built by the Flavian emperors in the first century AD as a gift to the Roman citizens, in the place where previously the Emperor Nero had his residence, the Domus Aurea. ...
After Neros death and the end of the Julio-Claudian dinasty, the new emperor, who belonged to the Flavian family, wanted to make a gesture to reconcile the Roman citizens with the new masters, and gave back to the Romans most of the land that Nero had occupied in the centre of the city. ...
In the amphitheatre, a Roman invention, were held games; the most popular were the venationes (hunts) and the munera STYLE
Imperial Roman
MATERIALS
Concrete & Brick
HISTORY
Pantheon, term applied originally to a temple to all the gods.
Approximate Word count = 2678
Approximate Pages = 10.7
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