The altar is located just under the basilica’s famous stone canopy, designed by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, which was recently restored. The suspect is from Romania and the candelabra ...

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, or canopy, over the main altar of St Peter’s Basilica, pledging to complete the work on Bernini ...