Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome
c. 1754 · oil on canvas
Dimensions overall: 154.5 x 197 cm (60 13/16 x 77 9/16 in.)
Collection: National Gallery of Art
Credit Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
around the collar of the cupola: [CA]ELORVM TV ES PETRVS ET SV[PER HANC PETRAM AEDIFICABO ECCLESIAM MEAM ET TIBI DABO CLAVES REGNI]; on the ceiling of the nave, the arms of Pope Paul V, encircled by: PAVLVS.V.PONT.MAX.A.MDCXV; on arcophagus above first doorway on right: INNOCENT. XIII. / PONT.MAX.; on upper relief roundel on the first pier at left: S GELASIVUS; on lower roundel on the second pier at left: S. SIXTUS; on upper roundel on right pier: S. CAIVUS; on lower roundel on right pier: S. MARCVS; on second pier: S. TELESCO
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About this artwork
Interior of Saint Peter's, Rome (c. 1754) by Giovanni Paolo Panini, oil on canvas, from the National Gallery of Art collection.
About Giovanni Paolo Panini
Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was a painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities.
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