Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective, Volume II: The Western Perspective, Volume II (with CourseMate Printed Access Card)

by Fred S. Kleiner

Michelangelo Buonarroti, plan for Saint Peter’s, Vatican City, Rome, Italy, 1546. In his modification of Bramante’s plan (fig. 17-22), Michelangelo reduced the central component from a number of interlocking crosses to a compact domed Greek cross inscribed in