Nine months after the start of the restoration work, the baldachin will be unveiled for a Mass celebrated by Pope Francis Oct ...

Pope Urban VIII commissioned Bernini in 1624 to design and build the enormous canopy over the Papal Altar of the Confession, ...

MORE than two dozen popes have celebrated Mass under the giant canopy that rises over the main altar of St Peter’s Basilica, ...

Experts conducting the first renovation in 250 years of a towering altar canopy in the Vatican provided a sneak peek of their ...

“It’s Bernini’s baldacchino … It’s a singular masterpiece of sacred art — one which is instantly ... up the throne of St. Peter with gilded angels high above the petrine throne ...

Standing 29 metres (95 feet) tall -- the height of a 10-storey building -- the Baldachin by Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini is the ... 2.5-tonne (5,600-pound) angels, it had been shrouded ...

The sculpture was set up in its place in November 1661 but Bernini was working on it since October 1656 ... while the young and beautiful angel is leaning out of the niche, lifting Habakkuk's head by ...