Above the altar is a 95-foot-high canopy with four bronze columns, known as a baldacchino, made by Gian Lorenzo Bernini around 1633. Ahead of the 2025 Jubilee year, Bernini's baldacchino underwent ...

The Vatican on Thursday unveiled plans for a yearlong restoration of the monumental baldacchino ... altar of St Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the work on Bernini’s masterpiece before ...