Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the Walls: Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

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Richard Wittman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the Walls

Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

Richard Wittman (University of California, Santa Barbara)

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Cambridge University Press
25 January 2024

Church history

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, and in what style, it should be reconstructed. Two years later, Pope Leo XII made the unprecedented decision to rebuild St. Paul's as an exact replica of its predecessor, which resulted in the most expensive construction project in Rome since the early modern rebuilding of St. Peter's. In this study, Richard Wittman traces this reconstruction within the context of the Church's struggle to adapt to a radically changed and changing world. He offers new perspectives on European architectural modernity and its negotiations with the past, and problematizes received ideas about the sources and significance of architectural historicism. Proposing a new prehistory of the great Catholic revival after 1850, Wittman's study demonstrates the key role that religions motivations played in the formation of modern mentalities, and particularly the historicist component.

By: Richard Wittman (University of California Santa Barbara)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 261mm, Width: 185mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 1.170kg
ISBN: 9781009414524
ISBN 10: 1009414526
Pages: 448
Publication Date: 25 January 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.