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GIOVANNI BERNINI

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian painter, sculptor and architect . He was born in 1598 at Naples, Italy and died in 1680.

His marble group, Apollo and Daphne, secured him fame at the age of eighteen, and he was employed by Urban VIII to prepare plans for the embellishment of the Basilica of St Peter's. The belfry and bronze baldachino for the high altar of St Peter's, the front of the College de Propaganda Fide, the church of St. Andrea a Monte Cavallo, the palace Barberini, the model of the monument of the Countess Matilda, and the monument of Urban VIII are among his chief works.

He declined Mazarin's invitation to France in 1644; and though for a short time neglected after the death of his patron Urban VIII, he speedily regained his position under Innocent X and Alexander VII.

In 1665 he accepted the king's invitation to Paris, travelling thither in princely state and with a numerous retinue. After his return to Home he was charged with the decoration of the bridge of St. Angelo, the tomb of Alexander VIL.

He is credited with having created the baroque style of sculpture.
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FATIMA

Fatima is a village in Portugal. In 1917 three young children claimed to see a vision of a lady at the village, which was subsequently held to be an appearance of the Catholic Virgin Mary and a basilica was constructed in 1928, being consecrated in 1953. The first national pilgrimage to Fatima took place in 1927, and in 1967 the Pope, Paul VI, attended to say Mass and pray for peace.
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ATRIUM

An atrium is a square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. Originally, the entrance hall to a Roman house, the concept was adopted as an open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
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BASILICA

Originally a basilica was the palace of a king; but afterwards, the term applied to an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, the term is applied to any large hall used for this purpose. The Roman basilica was used by the Romans as a place of public meeting, with court rooms, etc., attached. The term basilica also describes a church building of the earlier centuries of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.
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LOMBARDIC ARCHITECTURE

Lombardic is the style of architecture that prevailed in Lombardy and part of Upper Italy, and which for a long time was recognised as a distinct Lombard style, presenting essential points of difference from the other Later Romanesque styles. In the Lombard churches the type of early Christian architecture was abandoned, and the vaulted basilica was introduced instead, although this system was subjected to several necessary modifications.

Many peculiarities assert themselves in which the vaulted basilicas of Lombardy differ from those of other countries. This occurs particularly in the facades , which have not, as has usually the case, a higher central portion and low side divisions, but which present one mass, terminating in a gable above, under the slopes of which, as well as in the choir and dome, are introduced arcade galleries. The separation into central and side divisions, as marking out the nave and the aisles, is only effected in a way that harmonises but indifferently with the whole by means of pilasters and half-columns. Beside the small arcade galleries below the gable, the whole of the facade is frequently decorated with one or more of these rows of arcades one above another, either continuous or grouped, with pilaster strips between the groups. The west front is sometimes embellished with a large and elegant rose window, which in fact forms one of the chief beauties of the facades of many of the churches in Italy, which are built in the Later Romanesque style.
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PARADISE

In architecture a paradise is an open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, like the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.
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SACRE-COEUR

The Sacre-Coeur is a magnificent church in the Montmartre region of Paris, France. At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 two Parisien Catholic businessmen, Alexandre Legentil and Rohault de Fleury, vowed to build a church dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ should Paris be spared the impending onslaught. The two men lived and Paris was saved, despite a lengthy siege, so they commenced work to build the Sacre-Coeur basilica in 1875. The design was drawn up by Paul Abadie and the project taken on by Archbishop Guibert of Paris, and the church finished in 1914 but not consecrated until 1919 due to the German invasion during the Great War. The bell tower of the Sacre-Coeur is 83 meters tall and contains one of the world's heaviest bells, weighing 18.5 tonnes.
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TRIFORIUM

In architecture a triforium is the gallery or open space between the vaulting and the roof of the aisles of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clerestory windows. In the Christian basilica the triforium was used for the accommodation of women.
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