Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's

Type

Book

Authors

R. A. Scotti

ISBN 10

0670037761

ISBN 13

9780670037766

Tags

Popes & the Vatican, Church History, History, Religious Buildings, Religious, Italy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

Description

Traces Pope Julius II's controversial early sixteenth-century construction of a new basilica in place of the Emperor Constantine's millennium-old St. Peter's Basilica, documenting how building efforts spanned two centuries and more than two dozen papacies while incorporating the contributions of such master artists as Michelangelo and Raphael. 50,000 first printing. - from Amzon

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