Drawing of a baldachin over a throne, placed on a dais Marie Antoinette's bed, which has a baldachin, in the Petit Trianon (Versailles, France) Enthroned Virgin Mary with cloth of honour by Hans Memling State bed of Louis XIV of France, Chambre du Roi, Versailles. A baldachin, or baldaquin (from Italian: baldacchino), is a canopy of state typically placed over an altar or throne.

Baldachin, in architecture, the canopy over an altar or tomb, supported on columns, especially when freestanding and disconnected from any enclosing wall. The term originates from the Spanish baldaquin, an elaborately brocaded material imported from Baghdad that was hung as a canopy over an altar

The meaning of BALDACHIN is a cloth canopy fixed or carried over an important person or a sacred object.

St. Peter's Baldachin (Italian: Baldacchino di San Pietro, L'Altare di Bernini) is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the city-state and papal enclave surrounded by Rome, Italy.The baldachin is at the center of the crossing, and directly under the dome of the basilica.

The baldachin as we know it was developed in medieval Europe. The term itself is said either to derive from the Spanish baldaquin or the Italian baldacco.Both terms were used to describe a fine ...

5 天之前 · ornamented canopy supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall (as over an altar)

2022年7月11日 · (From Italian: baldaccino, canopy of state). An architectural canopy of stone, metal, or fabric. In an ancient theatre such as Miletus, it is a stone or marble structure built in the form of a canopy that signifies status and serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather, example of baldachin remains are the columns as found in the center of the ima cavea at the …

[1250–1300; earlier baldakin ‹ ML baldakinus ‹ It baldacchino, equiv. to Baldacc (o) Baghdad (famous as a source of silk brocades) + -ino-ine 1] Synonyms of 'baldachin' awning , canopy , tester , covering

2025年1月30日 · A canopy over an altar, tomb, or throne. The original meaning of ‘baldachin’ is a silk cloth from Baghdad (baldacco in Italian).A baldacchino is supported by columns and can be portable or fixed, the most famous example of the latter being Bernini's great structure, built 1624–33, for the interior of St Peter's, Rome and placed, as a symbol of the enduring power of …

2025年1月6日 · Bernini had already provided the chief coup de théâtre of the basilica's interior, the monumental bronze canopy or baldachino over the high altar and tomb of St Peter. A building in form of a canopy, or a crown supported by pillars for the covering of an altar; a canopy carried over the host in Roman Catholic countries