Building Italian Ancient Architecture [Episode 1] As Long As 'As Long As St. Peter's Stands' Exists

[I tried making a papercraft of St. Peter's Basilica]

About a year ago, I went on a grand expedition called the "Italian Renaissance Journey." The mission objective was to conquer the Renaissance art of Venice and Florence in six days.

Well, that's impossible, right?
I majored in art history in college, but I wasn't very interested in Renaissance art and had almost no knowledge of it, so I ended up just being overwhelmed while I was there.
Even so, since I was going to Florence and Venice, I decided on just one work that I "absolutely must see!" It was Paolo Veronese's "Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto," exhibited at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. The details and results of that are as I serialized in "Building a Roman Galley". Well, the galley building is currently on hold, though...

Since then, about a year has passed.
The commander-in-chief of this operation, my wife, seems to have decided to launch an attack from the "Baroque art" front this time, perhaps because she thought a re-conquest from the "Renaissance art" front would be difficult, or perhaps she judged that sufficient results had already been achieved.
The targets are Rome and Florence.
The enemy generals are a lineup of famous warriors: Bernini, Caravaggio, and Borromini. In addition, there are the old enemies from last year, such as Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli, waiting in the wings.
No matter how I look at it, it seems like it will be an even tougher battle than last year.

However, I cannot be intimidated. Although I am just a common soldier, I want to have a personal theme.
What should it be?
When it comes to Rome and Florence, it would be difficult to set "galley ships" as the theme (although it seems that the Papal States and the Republic of Florence also had a few galley ships at the time of the Battle of Lepanto...)

So, I chose Italian ancient architecture.
St. Peter's Basilica in Rome and the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence come to mind first.

Actually, last year, I found a model kit of the Duomo at the Uffizi Gallery museum shop. However, the price was a bit high, and there were various other things I wanted, so I decided not to buy it, and as expected, I regretted it immensely after returning home.
This year, I intend to buy it and bring it back.

So, what about St. Peter's?
Or rather, I am reading "As Long As St. Peter's Stands"*1 in preparation for my trip to Rome (I intend to re-read it on the plane as well), and because I am under its influence, I am in the mood to build St. Peter's much more than the Duomo right now.

When I searched online to see if there was a model, I couldn't find a kit, but I found a treasure trove in the papercraft section called "Creative Park" on the Canon printer website.
Not only St. Peter's and the Duomo, but also the Colosseum, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Siena Cathedral, Milan Cathedral, and various other ancient buildings from around the world are posted there.
I must build these.

I immediately downloaded the "Vatican St. Peter's Basilica Mini" and the "Italy Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral Mini".

The reason it is labeled "Mini" is that it is a small papercraft that can be printed on a single sheet of A4 paper, and more full-scale versions are also available.

I tried building it.

This is good.

How about printing these development diagrams onto thin plastic plates to create more three-dimensional models?
Since many Italian ancient buildings are introduced in "As Long As St. Peter's Stands," if I can find their three-view drawings, it seems possible to turn Italian ancient architecture into a series.
It would be interesting to build the buildings I visited in Rome and Florence to a unified scale and line them up like the "Waterline Series" naval review by the Shizuoka Plastic Model Manufacturers Association.

Now, what should I do?

[Episode 2] Cathedrals and Churches in a Unified Scale continues