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

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. Reprint.

• | Author: R. A. Scotti
• | Publisher: Plume
• | Publication Date: May 29, 2007
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0452288606
• | ISBN-13: 9780452288607