St Peter's and the Vatican — 120 years of competing plans (3D)

About this app

From Old St Peter's via Bramante, Raffael, Sangallo and Michelangelo to Maderno and Bernini: timeline 324 to today, designs morph into each other, plan as an architectural drawing, the Vatican today from OpenStreetMap. The view from the square at eye level measures why the façade hides Michelangelo's dome from close up – and how much a central plan would have shown.

Subject: World heritage & building history

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