Sunday February 18, 2007 9:53
DPA ROME .-
Art experts discovered a valuable marble bas-relief in the Vatican with that until the seventeenth century was the tomb roof St. Peter's in Rome.
The work was commissioned in 1484 by Pope Sixtus IV and shown on all four sides of 3.4 meters high, among other things, the crucifixion of St. Peter the Apostle Paul's arrest and the fall Simon Magus.
The relief was found in the huge archives of the administration of the Basilica of St. Peter, the "Fabbrica di San Pietro, said Tuesday the newspaper" La Repubblica ". After the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680) were commissioned in 1624 to create a new cover for the tomb, the old ciborium was removed and cut into small pieces. The bronze canopy erected by Bernini on columns 29 meters high is still in the center of the basilica.
Earlier this month, experts had found another surprise the "Fabbrica di San Pietro": a receipt for centuries to prove that the Renaissance master Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) lived in a room inside the temple during their work in the Basilica of San Pedro. "No one could prove so far, but this document (from 1557) has brought to light a truth that until now was only a hypothesis," said historian Italian art Cristina Carlo-Stella.
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