Conference paper
Architectonics of the Pope Sixtus V
Andrija Mutnjaković
; Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The Pope Sixtus V (1585 – 1590) contributed to the reform of Christian religion considerably and with his town-planning and architectonic revitalization of Rome he laid foundations to modern architecture. As he was son of a Croatian refugee from Boka Kotorska he expressed his Croatian origin with distinct care for Croatian Chapter and the church of St. Jerome on the banks of the Tiber. With his good intentions to enable pilgrims a passable tour around seven classic Roman basilicas he traced and partly constructed a street network around Rome that would become the role model of the baroque town-planning and eventually the European town development concept. By constructing Lateran, Quirinal and Vatican palaces, he set the standard to Roman architecture and European monarchic palaces. By constructing the Vatican library he set the role model of representative librarian architecture. He revealed the quality of baroque town-planning accentuation by placing obelisks and fountains on squares and crossroads. The construction of the dome above the St. Paul’s basilica reflected an extraordinary constructionally daring and formally attractive symbolics of the power of faith. He restored over hundred Roman churches for the benefit of the Roman folk and numerous pilgrims and he built one church wholeheartedly: the Croatian church of St. Jerome.
Keywords
Pope Sixtus V; Croatian church of St. Jerome; Rome; architect Martino Longhi
Hrčak ID:
144993
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Publication date:
25.4.2014.
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