Basilica : the splendor and the scandal :building St. Peter's / R.A. Scotti.
Publication details: New York : Plume ; London : Turnaround [distributor], c2007.Description: xx, 315 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780452288607
- 0452288606
- Building St. Peter's
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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.
