Rome, St. Peter’s Basilica.
From Bilder-Atlas zum Conversations-Lexikon : Geschichte der Baukunst (plates to the history of achitecture section of the Conversations-Lexikon, AKA Brockhaus Enzyklopädie), Published by Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1888.
(Source: archive.org)
Reblogging for ze sister who is taking up Architecture. :)
The construction...basilica began 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.
basilicas is so old it’s calming.