Gian
Lorenzo Bernini's bronze
baldachin. A massive structure,
underneath it is the "Confession,"
the papal alter (from which only
the Pope may give mass),
and St. Peter's tomb.
Bernini worked on it from 1624-33,
commissioned by Urban VIII.
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Level
with the camera is the
Confession, delimited by a marble
balustrade where 89 flames burn
eternally in gilt bronze
cornucopias, designed by Mattia
de Rossi. Beneath is ...
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Tomb of St. Peter.
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Glory, be Bernini, lighted
by the Sun. The dove symbolizes
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