Gian Lorenzo Bernini is often upheld as both the greatest sculptor and architect of the Baroque style. Two of his most famous architectural works are found at St Peter's. One is the four-story baldachin that stands over the high altar.14 (A baldachin is an indoor canopy over an important object, such as an altar or a throne.) The other is the curving colonnades that frame St Peter's Square. Bernini's foremost building is likely Sant'Andrea al Quirinale (Saint Andrew's at the Quirinal), a small church. (The Quirinal is one of the hills of Rome.)
Baldachin at
Saint Peter's.
Saint Peter'
s Square.
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