1
From Santis earthly tomb with demons
hole,Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.The
path of light is laid, the sacred test,Let
angels guide you on your lofty quest.
2
From this quatrain,belonging to Galileos
Diagramma,start the searches of Langdon and
Vittoria. They are looking for the four Sciences
Altar,where four cardinals will be killed.
3
By the first phrase they understand that they
have to go to Chigi Chapel, known as Chapel of
the Earth. Here they discover a dead cardinals s
body, branded by the mythical ambigram of
earth.Now they are looking for he airs
ambigram, placed in S. Peter square.
4
Arrived there they reach Caligolas Obelisk, to
the whose base there is West Ponente an
elipse carved with the image of a bollowing gust
of wind, symbolizing the air.
5

• Domenico Fontana in 1586 moved it to Rome
• Pope Sixtus V changes its position
• Its like Esquilino obelisk and Quirinale obelisk
• Height 25,37 meters, weight 32 tons
• Not usual hieroglyphs

6
After a short time here is murdered the second
cardinal, who is branded by the mythical ambigram
of Air.
7
Fifteen days before the Pope died and so Langdon
and Vittoria decide to go to Grotte Vaticane to
see the Pope s body and they discover that he
was poisoned
8
The Coves Vaticans extend under the navata one
center them of a Basilica of Saint Peter, three
meters under it put into effect them pavement,
from the greater altar (therefore said papal
altar) until to approximately half of the navata
one

• they form a true one and own church basement
  that occupies the space between it puts into
  effect them pavement of the basilica and that one
  of the ancient costantiniana basilica of IV the
  century.
• The narrow spaces, characterize to you from
  lowered times to botte, were dig to you from the
  rinascimentali architects in order to prepare the
  foundations of put into effect them basilica.

9
In the meantime the camerlengo, the Pope
representative, goes to Sistina Chapel to exhort
the cardinals to continue the conclave altough
the killings.
10

• The Sistine Chapel is chapel in the Apostolic
  Palace, the Pope residence.
• Exterior
• Interior
• Decoration

11
The Sistine Chapel is a high rectangular brick
building. The internal spaces are divided into
three storeys. The building had six tall arched
windows down each side and two at a either end.
Several of these have been blocked. Above the
vault rises a third storey with wardrooms for
guards.

• At this level was constructed an open
  projecting gangway wich encirclled the building
  supported on an arcade springing from the walls.
  The gangway has been roofed as it was a continual
  source of water penetration to the vault of the
  Chapel. The building is roofed with pantile
  tiles. Subsidence and cracking of masonry such as
  must also have affected the Cappella Maggiore has
  necessitated the building of very large
  buttresses to brace the exterior walls. The
  accretion of other buildings has further altered
  the exterior appearance of the Chapel.

12
Clearly defined proportions were a feature of
Renaissance architecture and reflected the
growing interest in the Classical heritage of
Rome.The pavement is in opus alexandrinum, a
decorative style using marble and coloured stone.
The screen or transenna in marble by Mino da
Fiesole, Andrea Bregno and Giovanni Dalmata
divides the chapel in two parts. The sculptors of
the transenna also provided the cantoria or
projecting choir gallery.
13
The pictorial decoration of the Sistine Chapel
comprises frescoes and a set of tapestries. The
lower is decorated with frescoed wall hangings in
silver and gold.

• The central tier of the walls has two cycles
  of paintings, which complement each other, The
  Life of Moses and The Life of Christ executed by
  Ghirlandaio,Botticelli,Perugino and Cosimo
  Rosselli.
• Raffaello design a series of tapestries. The
  depict the lives of the two leaders among the
  Apostles who established the Christian church in
  Rome, Saints Peter and Paul.
• The wall paintings were executed by pemier
  painters Perugino,Botticelli,Ghirlandaio,Rosselli
  ni. The subjects were historical religious themes.

14

• Around the arched tops of the windows are
  areas known as the lunettes which contain the
  Ancestors of Christ,painted by Michelangelo as
  part of the scheme for the ceiling.The ceiling
  painted by Michelangelo has a series of nine
  paintings showing Gods creation of the
  World,Gods relationship with Mankind and
  Makinds fall from Gods Grace. On the large
  pendentives are painted twelve Biblical and
  Classical men and women.

15
Then Langdon and Vittoria go to Santa Maria della
Vittoria and here they found another dead
cardinals body. This time branded by the
ambirgam of fire. The murder is still there and
he captures Vittoria.
16
Langdon understand that the last sciences altar
is at Navona Square but he cant prevent the
klilling of the last cardinal, branded by the
ambigram of water. Afterwards Langdon saves
Victoria and, kills the murder and together they
discover the Illuminati plan.
17
The books ends with Langdon and Vittoria that go
to the Camerlengo to save him but at the end they
understand that hes Giano, the Illuminatis
leader, and that he organized this plan to obtain
fame and become Pope.
18
Surely the author choose Saint Peter as a
Sciences Altar because it ranks second among the
seven major Basilicas of Rome. Possibly the
largest church building in christianity its full
of statues, frescoes and beautiful architectural
elements.

• History
• Insides Structure
• Interior
• Dome
• Square

19
(No Transcript)
20
Construction was begun on the order of the Roman
emperor Costantine I between 326 an 333, and took
about 30 years to complete. Papal coronations
began to be held here, and in 800, Charlemagne
was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At
first Pope Julius II had every intention of
preserving the old building, but his attention
soon turned toward tearing it down and building a
new structure. Many people of the time were
shocked by the proposal but in the end, the
design of the new basilica attempted to
reconsacrate these remains as much as possible.
The original altar was preserved in the new
structure which would house it.
21

• Five aisles
• Over 350 feet long
• Latin cross
• Gabled roof
• Atrium
• Mosaic of Constantine and Saint Peter
• Salomonic columns

22

• Monuments and memorials
• Piety and Baldachin
• Saint Peter Enthroned
• Pio XI and Pio XII
• Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament
• Leone XI and Innocent XI
• St. Peters crucifixion, St.Joseph, St. Thomas

23
(No Transcript)
24

• Marble sculpture
• Cardinal Jean De Billheres
• Michelangelo
• Crucifixion
• Quite out of proportions
• Created in two years
• Belonging to XVIII century

25

• Large sculpted bronze artwork
• Bernini
• Placed Saint Peters tomb
• Baroque
• Gilded statues of angels

26
(No Transcript)
27

• Michelangelo
• 1546
• Spherical
• 120 meters above the floor
• 42,3 meters in interior diameter
• Fontana built the lantern

• You are Peter and on this rock I will built my
  church, I will give you the keys of the kingdom
  of heaven.

28
(No Transcript)
29

• Bernini
• 1656 1667
• Elliptical colonnade
• Two pairs of doric columns
• Baroque architecture
• Two fountains by Maderno and Bernini

30
Created by Maria Elisabetta Ghisu, Alessia
Palombi, Manuela Spera, Ludovica Plini, Manuel
Cardella, Giulia Cappellazzo.