Text on the banner: "Dispositione e veduta generale delle machine che servirono per alzare l'obelisco Vaticano" (translation: Positioning and overview of the machines that will erect the Vatican obelisk). In 1586, Domenico Fontana erected an Obelisk on Peter's Square in Rome. It took a concerted effort of 900 men and 75 horses and countless pulleys to erect this monument.