TY - BOOK ID - 85467632 TI - Eyewitness to Old St. Peter's : a study of Maffeo Vegio's "Remembering the ancient history of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome" : with translation and a digital reconstruction of the church AU - Smith, Christine AU - O'Connor, Joseph F. PY - 2019 SN - 1108750893 1108654991 1108496857 9781108750899 9781108654999 9781108496858 9781108722018 1108752683 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Church architecture KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Lost architecture KW - Architectural heritage, Lost KW - Buildings, Lost KW - Demolished architecture KW - Demolished buildings KW - Destroyed architecture KW - Destroyed buildings KW - Lost architectural heritage KW - Lost buildings KW - Architecture KW - Church ornament KW - Ecclesiastical decoration and ornament KW - Decoration and ornament KW - Interior decoration KW - Religious articles KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical architecture KW - Rood-lofts KW - Religious architecture KW - Architecture, Gothic KW - Church buildings KW - History. KW - Vegio, Maffeo, KW - Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano KW - San Pietro in Vaticano (Basilica) KW - Basilica vaticana KW - Saint Peter's Cathedral (Vatican City) KW - Vatican City. KW - S. Pietro in Vaticano (Basilica) KW - St. Peter's (Basilica : Vatican City) KW - Basilique de Saint-Pierre (Vatican City) KW - Basilica Sancti Petri (Vatican City) KW - Sanctus Petrus (Basilica : Vatican City) KW - Basilica papale di San Pietro in Vaticano KW - Vatican City KW - City of the Vatican KW - Città del Vaticano KW - Vatikana KW - Vatican City State KW - Stato della Città del Vaticano KW - Miejsce Piotrowe KW - Wieczne Miasto KW - Watykan KW - Cité du Vatican KW - Stolica Apostolska KW - Civitas Vaticana KW - Status Civitatis Vaticanae KW - Holy See KW - Holy See (Vatican City State) KW - Holy See (Vatican City) KW - Santa Sede KW - Santa Sede (Stato della Città del Vaticano) KW - Santa Sede (Città del Vaticano) KW - State of the Vatican City KW - Città Vaticano KW - Papal States KW - Antiquities. KW - Buildings, structures, etc. KW - Roma KW - San Pietro (Roma) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85467632 AB - Old St Peter's Basilica in Rome stood for over eleven centuries until it was demolished to make room for today's church on the same Vatican site. Its last eyewitness, Maffeo Vegio, explained to the Roman hierarchy how revival of the papacy, whose prestige after the exile to Avignon had been diminished, was inseparable from a renewed awareness of the primacy of Peter's Church. To make his case, Vegio wrote a history founded on credible written and visual evidence. The text guides us through the building's true story in its material reality, undistorted by medieval guides. This was its living memory and a visualization of the continuity of Roman history into modern times. This volume makes available the first complete English translation of Vegio's text. Accompanied by full-color digital reconstructions of the Basilica as it appeared in Vegio's day. ER -