Beautiful Quote by Mark Twain

The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

— Frank Gehry

“How seldom we notice rooftops; how easily our eyes are drawn to the more flamboyant attractions of a Roman temple or Renaissance church.”

— Alain de Botton

The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Buonarroti was later given the job of designing the huge dome of the new Basilica of St. Peter. It is well known how much…

— Benjamin Blech

“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism...…

— James Carroll

“Michelangelo proposed to the pope that he make a large copy of the Pantheon dome on top of the new St. Peter’s. The horrified…

— Benjamin Blech

The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have…

— Karl Philipp Moritz

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good…

— Jonathan Pryce

Can the vast technology beneath our gaze be anything but a representation? Any optical artifact... The city panorama is a theoretical (ie visual) simulacrum:…

— Michel de Certeau

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“The history of Italy, and especially of Rome, is intertwined with the history of the Roman Catholic Church. Rome became tied to Christianity in…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer…

— Eusebius