St Paul S Within The Walls

The book traces nearly two thousand years of architectural transformations to St Paul's Basilica, one of Rome's principal churches.

Excerpt from St. Paul's Within the Walls: An Account of the American Chapel at Rome, Italy; Together With the Sermons Preached in Connection With Its Consecration, Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 1876 The wide-spread interest manifested in the work of building St. Paul's Church in Rome is a suffi cient reason for the publication of this volume. The author feels the need only of an apology for its late appearance, and begs to plead in excuse for this the exhaustion following six years of heavy and unbroken toil and anxiety, and the pressure of duties whose daily fulfillment seemed to have a first claim on his time and strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"This remarkable book examines the impact of Rome on American artists and writers from the earliest days of the new republic to the present. In volume I: Classical Rome Vance shows, for example, how the Forum and the Colosseum inspired American thoughts of ideal republics and how the Pantheon presented a pagan challenge to American ideas of divinity, beauty, and sexuality. In volume II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome, Vance begins by examining the three foremost Roman Catholic symbols: the bambino, the madonna, and the pope. In the section on contemporary Rome, he addresses American attitudes toward Rome's earliest attempts at democratization, toward its aristocratic social structures, and toward the political changes that occurred after World War II"--Publisher's website, viewed August 23, 2018.

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