Saint Longinus is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. Completed in 1638, the marble

Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...

 sculpture sits in the north-eastern niche in the crossing of St Peter's

St. Peter's Basilica

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world...

 in the Vatican City

Vatican City

Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...

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Preparatory Studies

An early bozzetto - (a rough model made in terracotta) is held in the Fogg Art Museum, and dated to around 1628. There are further set of eight drawings in the Dusseldorf Museum Kunstpalast