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St Peter's (Wonders of the World) (repost)

Posted By: arundhati
St Peter's (Wonders of the World) (repost)

Keith Miller, "St Peter's (Wonders of the World)"
2007 | ISBN: 1861979541 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB

The story of St Peter's begins in the 1st century CE with the Hippodrome of Nero, one of two places where the Apostle Peter may have been crucified. 250 years later Constantine the Great marked the supposed site of Peter's tomb in an ancient cemetery (still there in the Grottoes under the church) with a great basilica. That in turn was replaced over a hundred-year period by a series of competitive renaissance and baroque Popes using the greatest artists of their day. St Peter's is apart from anything else immediately recognisable to us all from its recurring television appearances as the centre of the Catholic world. Here Keith Miller offers a rewarding account of a world-famous building: who built it; what it looks like and why; and, how it affects the tourist or pilgrim. An intricate history, telling biography and the study of great art and architecture all play their part in a book that is a brilliant debut. "The Wonders of the World" is a series of books that focuses on some of the world's most famous sites or monuments. Their names will be familiar to almost everyone: they have achieved iconic stature and are loaded with a fair amount of mythological baggage. These monuments have been the subject of many books over the centuries, but our aim, through the skill and stature of the writers, is to get something much more enlightening, stimulating, even controversial, than straightforward histories or guides.