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Pier Francesco Mola’s refined 1659 portrait sketch of Pope Alexander VII is all crisp detail from the waist up and all waxy meltdown below.

Pietro da Cortona added the peculiar semicircular portico under Alexander VII.

The Colonnades have 284 columns, are sixty-one feet wide, and sixty-four high; they enclose an area of 777 English feet; they were built by Bernini for Alexander VII., 1657-67.

November 18th, 1626; the colonnade added by Alexander VII.,

Its decorations were chiefly executed by Bernini for Alexander VII.