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

Richard Wittman

doi:10.1017/9781009414548

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Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

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Richard Wittman, University of California, Santa Barbara

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2024
Online ISBN:: 9781009414548
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009414548

Subjects:: Art, Religion, Church History, Architecture

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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.

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Architecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century

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Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls
pp i-ii

Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Plates
pp vii-viii

Figures
pp ix-xiv

Acknowledgments
pp xv-xviii

Abbreviations
pp xix-xx

Introduction
pp 1-10

Part I - Fire in the Temple
pp 11-136

One - Disenchanting Histories
pp 13-40

Two - “A Portent, beyond Statues Sweating Blood in the Forum …”
pp 41-64

Three - Future Visions
pp 65-83

Four - Broadening the Debate
pp 84-99

Five - Reframing the Debate
pp 100-124

Six - Catholic Romanticism
pp 125-136

Part II - Resurrecting San Paolo
pp 137-204

Seven - Matters of Money
pp 139-156

Eight - Resisting Resurrection
pp 157-185

Nine - The End of a Generation
pp 186-204

Part III - Reimagined Sacred Histories
pp 205-330

Ten - Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo
pp 207-245

Eleven - Paul and Peter
pp 246-263

Twelve - Material Histories
pp 264-294

Thirteen - Prelude to a Revolution
pp 295-320

Fourteen - Eighteen Forty-Eight
pp 321-330

Part IV - From Paul to Mary
pp 331-386

Fifteen - Pius IX and Romantic Aesthetics
pp 333-348

Sixteen - Two Days in December
pp 349-364

Conclusion
pp 365-386

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