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Creating St. Peter's: Architectural Treasures of the Vatican
By Stan Parchin From: http://arthistory./od/special
About the show:
The building and maintenance of New St. Peter's Basilica, the largest church in Christendom and the world, is the subject of a rare, two-floor special exhibition at the Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, Connecticut. Due to overwhelming popular demand, Creating St. Peter's: Architectural Treasures of the Vatican, originally scheduled to close last August after an eight-month run, was given a four-month holiday extension. It will conclude its American appearance on January 9, 2005. The exhibition's more than 100 artifacts, scale models and works of art have since been augmented by some forty more objects. Most of the show's pieces are rarely on view in Rome and have never traveled to the United States before. e from the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the Vatican's office charged with maintaining and preserving St. Peter's Basilica.
In the museum's lobby, a series of oversized hanging banners describes the Renaissance and Catholic Reformation popes involved in the creation of New St. Peter's Basilica. This serves as an educational backdrop to the first room of the show. There the viewer finds dioramas, drawings, documents and instruments related to the basilica's construction and the erection of the Egyptian stone obelisk that stands prominently in