Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti.
Scotti, R. A.
2006
NA5620.S9 S36 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti.
Author
Scotti, R. A.
ISBN
0670037761
9780670037766
9780670037761
Publication Details
New York : Viking, 2006.
Language
English
Description
xx, 299 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 22 cm.
Call Number
NA5620.S9 S36 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
726.509456/34
Summary
It was the splendor--and the scandal--of the age, the defining event of the high Renaissance. In 1506, the ferociously ambitious Renaissance Pope Julius II tore down the most sacred shrine in Europe--the millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica built by the Emperor Constantine over the apostle's grave--to build a better basilica. Construction of the new St. Peter's spanned two centuries, embroiled 27 popes, and consumed the genius of the greatest artists of the age--Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael, and Bernini. As the basilica rose, modern Rome rose with it, as glorious as the city of the Caesars. But the cost was unimaginable: the new basilica provoked the Protestant Reformation, dividing the Christian world for all time.--From publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.
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The Christian Caesar 1503-1513
The first stone, April 1506
The First St. Peter's
IlTerribilis
A Trojan horse
A surprise winner
Imperial dimensions
Vaulting ambition
Onward Christian soldiers
A Christian imperium
A viper's nest
The death of Julius
The deplorable Medici Popes 1513-1534
The first Medici Prince
An empty stage
A Roman candle
The revenge of the Sangallos
Salvation for sale
Sweet revenge
A brief moment of truth
Medici Redux
The Michelangelo imperative 1546-1626
A violent awakening
Julius's folly
Motu Proprio
An immovable object
The swineherd who built Rome
Raising the dome
A new century
The knaves of St. Peter's 1,300 years later
Bernini's grand illusions 1623-1667
The romance of the baroque
Full circle
Epilogue
Appendix I: The Popes from Nicholas V to Alexander VII
Appendix II: Statistics.

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