Format:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203818480
Series Statement:
The Classical Tradition in Architecture Series
Content:
Examining the urban and architectural developments in Rome during the Pontificate of Julius II (1503-13) this book focuses on the political, religious and artistic motives behind the principal architect, Donato Bramante, and his ambition to create a unified urban/architectural scheme
Note:
Intro -- renovatio urbis Architecture, urbanism and ceremony in the Rome of Julius II -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Figure credits -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Signposting Peter and Paul -- The Tiber's sacred banks -- Peripheral centres -- "inter duas metas" -- Papal rivalries -- Chigi Chapel -- 2 Via Giulia and papal corporatism: the politics of order -- The Julian lapide -- Via Giulia -- The legacy of Sixtus IV -- Quartiere dei Banchi -- Via Peregrinorum, Via Papalis and Via Recta -- Solenne Possesso and Via Triumphalis -- Papal corporatism -- Pons Neronianus and Porta Triumphalis -- Early Christian precedents -- Meta Romuli and Serlio's Scena Tragica -- Crossing thresholds: Peter and Caesar -- The papal 'hieroglyph' and the Festa di Agone -- 3 Palazzo dei Tribunali and the meaning of justice -- sedes iustitiae -- The four tribunals -- The Capitol and Commune/Cardinal's Palace -- St Blaise and Justice -- iustitia cosmica -- Caesar and iustitia -- Pax Romana -- 4 Cortile del Belvedere, Via della Lungara and vita contemplativa -- 'The beautiful view' -- via suburbana/via sanctus -- Passage and salvation -- 5 St Peter's Basilica: orientation and succession -- Transformations from old to new -- territorium triumphale -- Sixtus IV and the Cappella del Coro -- Julius II and Caesar's ashes -- Janus and Peter -- Janus Quadrifrons -- The Tegurium -- 6 The Stanza della Segnatura: a testimony to a Golden Age -- Topographical and geographical connections -- in facultatibus -- Triune symbolism -- Conversio -- St Bonaventure and the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum -- Justice and Poetry -- Mapping the Golden Age -- Conclusion: pons/facio: popes and bridges -- The Julian 'project' -- Pontifex Maximus -- Corpus Mysticum -- Raphael's portrait -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Temple, Nicholas Renovatio Urbis Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2011 ISBN 9780415473859
Language:
English
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