Basilica : the splendor and the scandal : building St. Peter's
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New York : Viking, 2006.
Physical Desc
xx, 299 pages, [16] pages of plates : ill., ports., plans ; 22 cm.
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
726.50945
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726.50945
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Published
New York : Viking, 2006.
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Book
Language
English
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.
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"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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