Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's
Scotti, R. A.
Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti - New York : Plume , 2007, c2006. - viii, 315 p. : ills. ; 21 cm.
First Plume printing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300) and index.
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.
9780452288607
2005058464
013464475 Uk
Basilica de San Pietro in Vaticano----History
Vatican City----History
NA5620.S9 / S36 2006
726.50 SCO
Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti - New York : Plume , 2007, c2006. - viii, 315 p. : ills. ; 21 cm.
First Plume printing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-300) and index.
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.
9780452288607
2005058464
013464475 Uk
Basilica de San Pietro in Vaticano----History
Vatican City----History
NA5620.S9 / S36 2006
726.50 SCO
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