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St. Paul's Outside the Walls - A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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St. Paul's Outside the Walls - A Roman Basilica, from Antiquity to the Modern Era (Hardcover)
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This volume examines one of Rome's most influential churches: the
principal basilica dedicated to St Paul. Nicola Camerlenghi traces
nearly two thousand years of physical transformations to the
church, from before its construction in the fourth century to its
reconstruction following a fire in 1823. By recounting this long
history, he restores the building to its rightful place as a
central, active participant in epochal political and religious
shifts in Rome and across Christendom, as well as a protagonist in
Western art and architectural history. Camerlenghi also examines
how buildings in general trigger memories and anchor meaning, and
how and why buildings endure, evolve, and remain relevant in
cultural contexts far removed from the moment of their inception.
At its core, Saint Paul's exemplifies the concept of building as a
process, not a product: a process deeply interlinked with religion,
institutions, history, cultural memory, and the arts. This study
also includes state-of-the-art digital reconstructions synthesizing
a wealth of historical evidence to visualize and analyze the
earlier (now lost) stages of the building's history, offering
glimpses into heretofore unexamined parts of its long, rich life.
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