Book contents
- Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls
- Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Fire in the Temple
- Part II Resurrecting San Paolo
- Part III Reimagined Sacred Histories
- Ten Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo
- Eleven Paul and Peter
- Twelve Material Histories
- Thirteen Prelude to a Revolution
- Fourteen Eighteen Forty-Eight
- Part IV From Paul to Mary
- Bibliography
- Index
Twelve - Material Histories
from Part III - Reimagined Sacred Histories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
Book contents
- Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls
- Rebuilding St. Paul’s Outside the Walls
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Fire in the Temple
- Part II Resurrecting San Paolo
- Part III Reimagined Sacred Histories
- Ten Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo
- Eleven Paul and Peter
- Twelve Material Histories
- Thirteen Prelude to a Revolution
- Fourteen Eighteen Forty-Eight
- Part IV From Paul to Mary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
“Material Histories” explores three different aspects of how materials and materiality functioned in giving meaning to the reconstructed San Paolo: Poletti’s reuse of ancient marbles salvaged from the old basilica to decorate his new choir; the unusual materials employed to confer meaning on his new St. Benedict chapel and baldachin; and the fetishized and then informationalized materiality of the consecration ceremony of 1840.
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- Rebuilding St. Paul's Outside the WallsArchitecture and the Catholic Revival in the 19th Century, pp. 264 - 294Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024