Richard Wittman

Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the Walls

Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

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Produktbeschreibung

"Proposing a new prehistory of the great Catholic revival after 1850, this book traces the reconstruction the Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls within the context of the Church's struggle to adapt to a radically changing world"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 173mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1179g
• ISBN-13: 9781009414524
• ISBN-10: 1009414526
• Artikelnr.: 69115423

Autorenporträt

Richard Wittman is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European architectural history and theory.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Fire in the Temple: 1. Disenchanting Histories
2. 'A Portent, Beyond Statues Sweating Blood in the Forum...'
3. Future Visions
4. Broadening the Debate
5. Reframing the Debate
6. Catholic Romanticism
II. Resurrecting San Paolo: 7. Matters of Money
8. Resisting Resurrection
9. The End of a Generation
III. Reimagined Sacred Histories: 10. Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo
11. Peter and Paul
12. Material Histories
13. Prelude to a Revolution
14. Eighteen Forty-Eight
IV. From Paul to Mary: 15. Pius IX and Romantic Aesthetics
16. Two Days in December.