History of St Peter's Bacilica

By claire.cass
  • 1448

    Pope Nicholas V recognised the irrepairable state of the old St Peter's Bacilica

  • 1503

    Bramante (who was Michelangelo's greatest enemy) was hired to build a new St Peters Basilica

  • 1506

    The start of the build

  • Period: 1508 to 1512

    Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

  • 1546

    Michelangelo, is named architect of St. Peter's. A year later, he produces his first wooden model of Brunelleschil's dome.

  • 1547

    Michelangelo redesigns the Dome

  • 26 years after the death of Michelangelo, the dome was completed.

  • Consecration of the new basilica of St Peter by Pope Urban

  • Period: to

    Bernini designed St. Peter's Square.