CASA GALIANO

The Baldacchino    (Completed May 2010)

Inspired by Gian Lorenzo Bernini's  baldacchino in  St. Peter's, the centerpiece of the garden is a groin vaulted concrete structure supported by spiral columns.   The roof is done using  hand made terracotta tiles set in mortar . A consealed cast concrete gutter will channel rain water to four corner gargoyles.  These terracotta  water spouts will represent the four seasons. An octagonal cupola   was fabricated for the crowing top with a finial sphere.

Marble Carvings 

Dante 's  Paradiso XI

(The Life of St. Francis)

1   St. Francis before his father Pietro Bernadone

Two Scenes of Poverty :

2.Mary and the Crucifixion

3.Caesar and Amyclas

4.St. Francis and His  First Followers