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| Michelangelo's masterpiece, 119m above the baldachin of Saint Peter: however only the base was finished when he died; Giacomo della Porta completed it in 1590. The lantern holds a Latin inscription, translated: "To the glory of Saint Peter, pope Sixtus V in the year 1590, the 5th of his pontificate". |
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