Saint Peter's Basilica and Square, Rome. Designed by architect Gianlorenzo Bernini with Egyptian obelisk in the piazza, fountains by Bernini and Carlo Maderno, Doric colonnades. Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican, Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano, Basilique de St. Pierre a Rome. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Carl Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1813. A 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with almost 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830.

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