RT Article
T1 Rethinking St. Peter's: Papirio Bartoli and the Ship of the Church
JF The sixteenth century journal
VO 48
IS 3
SP 589
OP 614
A1 González Tornel, Pablo 1977-
LA English
PB Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
YR 2017
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1570639027
AB In the years up to 1623, Papirio Bartoli, Cardinal Federico Borromeo's Milanese agent in Rome, drew up a project for an intervention on St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. The Lombard's main proposal was the construction of an enormous boat-shaped choir at the crossing of the church, but the dilettante also suggested the construction of two new aisles, a new façade, and a porticoed piazza in front of it. This essay analyzes the iconographic components, the liturgical sources, and the models of Bartoli's project. It furthermore studies the culture of Lombard and Hispanic origin on which his ideas drew in order to understand the development of the navicella, viewing it not so much as a real proposal but as one more piece in the artistic theology of the seventeenth century.
K1 BARTOLI, Papirio
K1 BORROMEO, Federico, 1564-1631
K1 Choirs (Architecture)
K1 FACADE design & construction
K1 ST. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City)