ARTH 1201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aedicula, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Francesco Borromini
11 Mar 2016
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Lecture 1: 01/19/2016 spiritual power: renaissance to baroque rome. What was once a uniied coninent, broke up with the religious situaion protestant reformaion. Marin luther was associated with the iniial protestant reformaion. Didn"t believe in indulgences (pardons for sins, sold ceriicates of grace) exempliied with st. peter"s. Writes the 95 theses challenges sacraments of confession and penance, challenge authority of pope, translates the bible into german which gave mass populaion access irst hand to it. Bible was further circulated with the invenion of the prining press by johannes. With the fall of constaninople in 1453, rome is at the epicenter of chrisianity. Pope julius ii, 1503-1513 decides to demolish and rebuild old st. peter"s (c. 350) Appoints donato bramante as the architect because of the tempieto. Tempieto, san pietro in montorio, rome, bramante; ca. Creaing a new culture on the foundaion of aniquity. Uses roman architecture in a new way. Centrally planned as well as acing as a martyrium.
