TY - JOUR
T1 - The 2019 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture
T2 - The Winged Eye at Work: Leon Battista Alberti Surveys Old St. Peter's
AU - Grafton, Anthony
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Leon Battista Alberti based his treatise "On the Art of Building"on close examination of a great many buildings. His survey of Old St. Peter's was especially thorough. He not only investigated the structure, but also ransacked written sources to re-create the church's original décor and to reconstruct the ways in which early popes had celebrated Mass and delivered sermons. Like Lorenzo Valla, he offered a suggestive and polemical history of the church. His ideas seemingly shaped the ways in which Pope Pius II restored the basilica, and his example shows that serious efforts to trace the history of Christianity long predated the Reformation.
AB - Leon Battista Alberti based his treatise "On the Art of Building"on close examination of a great many buildings. His survey of Old St. Peter's was especially thorough. He not only investigated the structure, but also ransacked written sources to re-create the church's original décor and to reconstruct the ways in which early popes had celebrated Mass and delivered sermons. Like Lorenzo Valla, he offered a suggestive and polemical history of the church. His ideas seemingly shaped the ways in which Pope Pius II restored the basilica, and his example shows that serious efforts to trace the history of Christianity long predated the Reformation.
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U2 - 10.1017/rqx.2020.216
DO - 10.1017/rqx.2020.216
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85099928918
SN - 0034-4338
VL - 73
SP - 1137
EP - 1178
JO - Renaissance Quarterly
JF - Renaissance Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -