St Peter`s Dome By Michelangelo Buonarroti With Bernini`s Baldacchino, Vatican City Editorial Image

Interior view of the dome of St. Peter`s by Michelangelo Buonarroti the italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance, Vatican City. The dome is the tallest in the world. The great dome soars above the altar and the baldacchino, sumptuously embellished with mosaic and stucco ornaments. The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter or simply Saint Peter`s Basilica, is a church built in the Renaissance style located in Vatican City, the papal enclave that is within the city of Rome. Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter`s is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world by interior measure.