Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter's
By R. A. Scotti.
Description
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. 50,000 first printing. - from Amzon
ISBN(s)
0670037761, 9780670037766
