Le Vatican et la basilique de Saint-Pierre de Rome
Le Vatican et la basilique de Saint-Pierre de Rome is an 1882 architectural folio by Paul Marie Letarouilly and Alphonse Simil, published in Paris by Morel for architects and students of classical building. The plates show ground plans of St Peter's Basilica in grey wash, with one richly coloured decorative ceiling panel with painted figures and gilded frames. A designer could take from the plans a strong, rhythmic geometry of repeated cross-shaped piers and radiating apses, and from the ceiling panel a palette of deep red, blue and gold with classical ornament.
