Obtained below the floor of the church, but elevated compared to the Basilica of Constantine in the fourth century, the caves contain, in addition to chapels dedicated to different saints, tombs of kings, queens and popes in the tenth century onwards. The holiest shrine is the tomb of Peter, where is the shrine, built by Emperor Constantine in the fourth century, the alleged tomb of the Apostle of Christ. In one of the chapels around the apse fresco of you will notice the fourteenth-century Roman painter Pietro Cavallini: it is the "Madonna of the mouth" so called because of the swelling on his face, which according to legend would have bled after a drunken soldier, having lost the game of bowling, he would have thrown one against the sacred image. In this place are located the tombs of Popes Paul VI (1978) and John Paul II (2005).
After the Sacristy common environment to centrally planned late-eighteenth century with columns from the Villa Adriana in Tivoli, you have access to the Treasury of St. Peter, where are exposed vestments, statues and papal tiaras and objects from different backgrounds, often gifts of kings or princes. Among the works to be reported to the tomb of Sixtus IV (1471-1484) by Antonio del Pollaiuolo, a Florentine artist of the fifteenth century: the sarcophagus, which he sees represented around the pope, the virtues and liberal arts, was executed in 1493 commissioned by Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere, future Pope Julius II.
By Bernini between 1656 and 1667 under Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667), consists of two parts: a first trapezoidal space, bounded by two closed arms straight and convergent alongside the churchyard, and a second space of elliptic , between the two semicircular colonnades of the fourfold, because, as he said the same Bernini, "being the church of San Pietro matrix of almost all the other had to have a porch which precisely proves that the mother would receive you with open arms Catholics, confirming their belief, heretics to reunite them in the Church and enlighten the infidels to the true faith. "
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