page_title: Basilica of San Pietro de Dom
section_title: Architectural sources
hierarchical_section_title: Basilica of San Pietro de Dom / Architectural sources
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: è il portale del broletto di brescia
context_page_description: The Basilica of San Pietro de Dom was a church in Brescia built in the early Christian era on the east side of the Piazza del Duomo. After numerous mishaps, it was demolished at the beginning of the seventeenth century to build the New Cathedral.
context_section_description: To date there are only two historically reliable and sufficiently clear depictions of the basilica. The first is the miniature on the cover of the Estimo della città di Brescia of 1588, which depicted the eastern side of the Piazza del Duomo, showing the Broletto palace with the Torre del Popolo tower, the Old Cathedral with its campanile (which collapsed in the 18th century), and the basilica itself in an emerging central body with two lower side aisles covered by sloping roofs. A roseate window appears in the upper middle, while below, the entrance portal opens. The building does not quite abut the street (today's Via Querini) but is separated by a set of houses.
  The second testimony is Giovanni Antonio Avanzo's plan from 1601 to provide precise areas and measurements for the new cathedral's construction. The drawing shows the plan of the basilica, confirming the three naves. The measurements are in Brescian fathoms (about half a metre). 
  These illustrations are reproduced in Panazza's 1942 book.
  Other sources show images of the church, often from a bird's eye view, but do not give additional detail beyond those from the aforementioned documents. An example is the Francesco Maffei painting Transporting the reliquaries of the Brescian saints Anastasio, Dominatore, Paolo and Domenico (currently in the Old Cathedral), where one can see the basilica's facade with the roseate window, as well as the south side with its series of arches typical of the period. A Pompeo Ghitti painting Beato Bernardino da Feltre istituisce a Brescia le scuole del SS. Sacramento (preserved in the Church of Santa Maria in Calchera) shows the old Piazza del Duomo with the basilica in the background, though no further detail can be elicited from it to reconstruct the basilica's appearance.
  Only a small part of the columns remain of the basilica. These originated in the Roman era and comprised the colonnade between the main and the two side aisles: monolithic columns of dark Egyptian marble, described by Zamboni as coloured like iron. They are about 5 metres tall, smooth and unfinished. Recovered from the demolition of the basilica, they have been reused in other monuments: two in the entrance to the Broletto, two for the entrance to the Church of Santa Maria della Carità, and six in the front-yard for the Villa Mazzucchelli in Ciliverghe.
caption: The Broletto gate with columns from the basilica
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