Artist: Arnolfo di Cambio

Date: 1285

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•  Four porphyry columns support this famous Gothic baldachin. The baldachin itself survived the fire but the columns are new

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• The Benedictine abbot Bartholomew who commissioned this work is represented in one of the corner statues and on the front panel

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• The balustrade, leading to St. Paul's tomb below, was created for the 1575 Jubilee