St. Peter’s Bibliography Mostly in English Joseph Connors 2015 06 01, 2017 09, 2018 05

Overall history William Tronzo, ed., St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Cambridge, 2005

Hugo Brandenburg, Antonella Ballardini, Christof Thoenes, eds., San Pietro Storia di un monumento, Milan, 2015. German: Der Petersdom in Rom : Die Baugeschichte von der Antike bis heute

Antonio Pinelli, ed., The Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, 4 vols., Modena, 2000

Books of the 16th and 17th Centuries Martino Ferrabosco, Libro de L’architettura di San Pietro nel Vaticano Finito Col disegno di Michel Angelo Bonaroto Et d’altri Architetti, ed. G.B. Costaguti, Sr., Rome, 1620. Rare copy in Bibliotheca Hertziana. Re-issued as Architettura della basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Opera di Bramante Lazzari, Michel’Angelo Bonarota, Carlo Maderni, ed altri famosi architetti, ed. G.B. Costaguti, Jr., Rome, 1684. Third edition by Filippo Gilii, Rome, 1812, with table of measurements of the basilica by Valadier.

Giacomo Grimaldi, Descrizione della Basilica Vaticana di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Codice Barberini Latino 2733, ed. Reto Niggl, Città del Vaticano, 1972

Filippo Buonanni, Numismata summorum pontificum tmpli Vaticani Fabricam Indicantia, Rome, 1696

Carlo Fontana, Tempio Vaticano, Rome, 1696. Modern edition: Giovanna Curcio, ed., Il Tempio Vaticano 1694 Carlo Fontana, Milan, 2003

Old St. Peter’s and Constantine Giacomo Grimaldi, Descrizione della Basilica Vaticana di S. Pietro in Vaticano. Codice Barberini Latino 2733, ed. Reto Niggl, Città del Vaticano, 1972. This is the facsimile of the drawings made at the time of the demolition of the nave of Old St. Peter’s c. 1605 ff.

Bruno/Maria Apollonj-Ghetti, A. Ferrua, E. Josi e E. Kirschbaum, Esplorazioni sotto la Confessione di San Pietro in Vaticano eseguite negli anni 1940-49, 2 vols., Città del Vaticano, 1951

Jocelyn Toynbee and John Ward Perkins, The Shrine of St. Peter and the Vatican Excavations, New York, 1957

John Ward Perkins, “The Shrine of St. Peter and its Twelve Spiral Columns,” Journal of Roman Studies, 42, 1952, pp. 21-33

John Ward Perkins, “Constantine and the Origins of the Christian Basilica,” Papers of the British School at Rome, 22, 1954, pp. 69-90

Richard Krautheimer, “The Constantinian Basilica,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 21, 1967, pp. 117-40

Richard Krautheimer, Spencer Corbett, Alfred Frazer, Corpus Basilicarum Christianarum Romae: The Early Christian Basilicas of Rome, Città del Vaticano, 1977, V, “S. Pietro”, pp. 165-279

J.H. Jonghees, Studies on Old St. Peter’s, Groningen, 1966

Daniel O’Connor, Peter in Rome. The Literary, Liturgical, and Archeological Evidence, New York and London, 1969

John Baldovin, The Urban Character of Christian Worship: The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 228), Rome, 1987

Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson, Joanna Story, Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, Cambridge, 2013

Meaghan McEvoy, “The Mausoleum of Honorius. Later Roman Imperial Christianity and the City of Rome in the Fifth Century,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 119-36

Richard Gem, “From Constantine to Constans. The Chronology of the Construction of Saint Peter’s Basilica,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 35-64

Lex Bosman, The Power of Tradition. Spolia in the Architecture of St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Hilverum, 2004

Lex Bosman, “Spolia in the Fourth-Century Basilica,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 65-80

Maria Andaloro and Serena Romano, Arte e iconografia a Roma dal tardoantico alla fine del medioevo, Milan, 2002

Dale Kinney, “Spolia,” in St. Peter’s in the Vatican, ed. William Tronzo, Cambridge, UK, 2005, pp. 16-47

John Mitchell, “Lively Columns and Living Stones – The Origins of the Constantinian Church Basilica,” in Encounters, Excavations and Argosies: Essays for Richard Hodges, ed. John Mitchell, John Moreland, Lea Beal, Oxford, 2017, pp. 190-207

Medieval St. Peter’s Julian Gardner, “The Stefaneschi Altarpice: A Reconsideration,” JWCI, 37, 1974, pp. 57-103

Willian Tronzo, “The Prestige of Saint Peter’s: Observations on the Function of Monumental Narrative Cycles in Italy,” in Pictorial Narrative in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Studies in the History of Art, 16), ed. Herbert Kessler and Marianna Shreve Simpson, Washington, D.C, 1985, pp. 93-112

Herbert Kessler and Johanna Zacharias, Rome 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim, New Haven and London, 2000

Joanna Story, “The Carolingians and the Oratory of Saint Peter the Shepherd,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 257-73

Ann Van Dijk, “The Veronica, the Vultus Christi and the Veneration of Icons in Medieval Rome,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 229-56

Phyllis Pray Bober and Ruth Rubinstein, Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture, London, 1986, pp. 220f., no. 187: Pine Cone (‘Pigna’), Peacocks and Griffins

Judson Emerick, “Altars Personified: The Cult of the Saints and the Chapel System in Pope Paschal I’s S. Prassede (817-819),” in Judson Emerick, Deborah Deliyannis, eds., Archaeology in Architecture: Studies in Honor of Cecil L. Striker, Mainz am Rhein, 2005, pp. 43-63

Patrizia Di Benedetti, “Una nuova vita per le memorie medievali e rinascimentali della Basilica di San Pietro,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 197-243

Giovanni Morello, “ ‘Or fu sì fatta la sembianza vostra?”. La Veronica di San Pietro storia ed imagine,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 39-80

Bronze St. Peter by Arnolfo di Cambio Albert/Maria Amman, “Die Ikone der Apostelfürsten in St. Peter in Rom,” Orientalia Christiana Periodica, 8, 1942, pp 457-68

Francesco Cagliotti in Antonio Pinelli, ed., The Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican, Modena, 2000, 4, pp. 759-65

Linda/Ann Nolan, “Touching the Divine: Mobility, Devotion, and the Display of Religious Objects in Early Modern Rome,” Ph.D. diss., University of Southern California, 2010, ch. 2

Estelle Lingo, Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque, London, Turnhout, 2017, pp. 155-56

Fifteenth-Century St. Peter’s Alison wright, The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome, New Haven and London, 2005, ch. 12: “The Tomb of Sixtus IV,” pp. 359-87; “The Tomb of Innocent VIII,” pp. 389-408

Ruth Olitsky Rubenstein, “Pius II’s Piazza S. Pietro and Saint Andrew’s Head,” in Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower, ed. Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard and Milton Lewine, London, 1967, pp. 22-33

Christine Smith and Joseph O’Connor, Building the Kingdom: Giannozzo Manetti on the Material and Spiritual Edifice, Turnhout, 2006

Robert Glass, “Filarete’s Rennovation of the Porta Argentea at Old Saint Peter’s,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 348-370

Ursula Nilgen, “L’eclettismo come programma nel primo Rinascimento a Roma. La porta bronzea del Filarete a San Pietro,” in Opere e giorni. Studi su mille anni di arte europea dedicati a Max Seidel, ed. Klaus Bergdolt and Giorgio Bonsanti, Venice, 2001, pp. 275-90

Alessandro Scafi, “La firma di Filarete sulla porta bronzea di San Pietro: la gioia della creazione artistica,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 137-51

Carol Richardson, “Saint Peter’s in the Fifteenth Century. Paul II, the Archpriests and the Case for Continuity,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 324-47

Julius II’s St. Peter’s Christine Shaw, Julius II. The Warrior Pope, Oxford, 1993

Armando Bruschi, Bramante, London, 1976, pp. 145-169

Mary Quinlan-McGrath, “The Foundation Horoscope(s) for St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 1506. Choosing a Time, Changing the Storia,” Isis, 92, 2001, pp. 716-41

Heinrich von Geymüller, Les projets primitifs pour la basilique de Saint-Pierre de Rome, Paris and Vienna, 1875. German edition: Die ursprünglichen Entwürfe für Sanct Peter in Rom, Vienna and Paris, 1875

Franz/Graf Wolff Metternich, Die Erbauung der Peterskirche zu Rom im 16. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Munich, 1972 (plates of all the early drawings for St. Peter’s)

Meg Licht, “I Ragionamenti--Visualizing St. Peter’s,” JSAH, XLIV, 1985, pp. 111-128.

Ian Campbell, “The new St. Peter’s: Basilica or Temple?,” Oxford Art Journal, IV, 1981, pp. 3- 8

Christoph Frommel, “St. Peter’s: The Early History,” in Henry Millon and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, eds. The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. The Representation of Architecture, Milan, 1994. pp. 399-423, and 598-630

Marie Tanner, Jerusalem on the Hill: Rome and the Vision of St. Peter’s in the Renaissance, Turnhout, 2010

Marie Tanner, “Jerusalem on the Hill. Rome and the Vision of St. Peter’s in the Renaissance: Nicholas V and Julius II,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 153-69

Lex Bosman, “The Dilemma of Pope Julius II: How to Preserve the Old St. Peter’s While Building a New St. Peter’s,” in Anton W.A. Boschloo et al., eds., ‘Aux Quatre Vents’. A Festschrift for Bert W. Meijer, Florence, 2002, pp.39-44

Bram Kempers, “Diverging Perspectives--New Saint Peter’s: Artistic Ambitions, Liturgical Requirements, Financial Limitations and Historical Interpretations,” Mededelingen van het Nederlands Instituut te Rome, 55, 1996, pp. 214-51

Bram Kempers, “Epilogue: A Hybrid History. The Antique Basilica with a Modern Dome,” in Old Saint Peter’s, Rome, ed. Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Carol Richardson and Joanna Story, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 386-403

Christof Thoenes, “Renaissance St. Peter’s,” in William Tronzo, ed., St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 64-92

St. Peter’s from Leo X to Paul III Christof Thoenes, “St. Peter’s 1534-46: Projects by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger for Pope Paul III,” in Henry Millon and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. The Representation of Architecture (cat.), Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1994, pp. 634-636

Arnaldo Bruschi, “The Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger at St. Peter’s Under Leo X,” in Christoph Frommel and Nicholas Adams, eds., The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle, II, New York and Cambridge, Mass., 2000, pp. 23-32

Christof Thoenes, “St. Peter’s, 1534-1546,” in Christoph Frommel and Nicholas Adams, eds., The Architectural Drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and His Circle, II, New York and Cambridge, Mass., 2000, pp. 33-43

Christof Thoenes, “St. Peter als Ruine. Zu einigen Veduten Heemskercks,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 49,1986, pp. 481-501; English translation as “St. Peter’s as Ruins: On some vedute by Heemskerck,” in Sixteenth-Century Italian Art, ed. Michael Cole, Malden MA and Oxford, 2006, pp. 25-39

Howard Burns, “Building against Time: Renaissance Strategies to Secure Large Churches Against Changes to their Design,” in Jean Guillaume, ed., L’Eglise dans l’architecture de la Renaissance (1990), Paris, 1995, pp. 107-31

Nicoletta Marcona, “’De’ buoni meccanici per la Fabbrica di San Pietro’: tecnolgie per la costruzione e il restauro della basilica Vaticana tra tradizione e innovazione,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 477-509

Michelangelo at St. Peter’s James Ackerman, The Architecture of Michelangelo, 2 vols., London, 1960-64; pb. ed. 1986 and later. The catalogue volume of 1964, which is not part of the paperback, is difficult but extremely rewarding reading. Chapter 8: “The Basilica of St. Peter’s.”

Henry Millon and Craig Hugh Smyth, “Pirro Ligorio, Michelangelo, and St. Peter’s,” in Robert Gaston, ed., Pirro Ligorio Artist and Antiquarian (Villa I Tatti, 10), Florence, 1988, pp. 216- 86.

Henry Millon and Craig Hugh Smyth, Michelangelo Architect: the Facade of San Lorenzo and the Drum and Dome of St. Peter’s, Milan, 1988

Henry Millon and Craig Hugh Smyth, “The Design of the Drum and Dome of St. Peter’s in Rome,” in Henry Millon and Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo. The Representation of Architecture (cat.), Venice, Palazzo Grassi, 1994, pp. 655-69

Henry Millon, “Michelangelo to Marchionnni, 1546-1784,” in William Tronzo, ed., St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 93-110

Baroque St. Peter’s: Della Porta and Maderno Louise Rice, The Altars and Altarpieces of New St. Peter’s: Outfitting the Basilica, 1621-1666, Cambridge, 1997, especially Chapter 2: “From Old to New St. Peter’s,” pp. 17-46

Howard Hibbard, Carlo Maderno and Roman Architecture 1580-1630, London, 1971, “St. Peter’s,” pp. 65-74

Rowland Mainstone, “Saving the Dome of St. Peter’s,” Construction History, 19, 2003, pp. 3- 18

Baroque St. Peter’s: Bernini Irving Lavin, Bernini and the Crossing of Saint Peter's, New York, 1968

Philip Fehl, “The ‘Stemme’ on Bernini’s Baldacchino in St Peter’s: A Forgotten Compliment,” Burlington Magazine, 118, 1976, pp. 484-91

Irving Lavin, “Bernini at St. Peter’s. Singularis in Singulis, in Omnibus Unicus,” in William Tronzo, ed., St. Peter’s in the Vatican, Cambridge, 2005, pp. 111-243

Irving Lavin, “The Baldacchino. Borromini vs Bernini: Did Borromini forget himself?, in Georg Satzinger and Sebastian Schütze, eds., Sank Peter in Rom 1506-2006. Beiträge der internationalen Tagung vom 22.-25. Februar 2006 in Bonn, Munich, 2008, pp. 275-99

Philipp Fehl, “Improvisation and the Artist’s Responsability in St. Peter’s, Rome: Papal Tombs by Bernini and Canova,” Akten des XXV. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte (1983), Vienna, 1985, vol. 9, pp. 111-123

Sarah McPhee, Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican, New Haven and London, 2002

Sarah McPhee, “The Long Arm of the Fabbrica: Saint Peter’s and the City of Rome,” in Sankt Peter in Rom 1506-2006 (2006), ed. Georg Satzinger and Sebastian Schütze, Munich, 2008, pp. 353-73

Margaret Kuntz, “Maderno’s Building Procedures at New St. Peter’s: Why the Facade First,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 68, 2005, pp.41-60

T.\Kaori Kitao, Circle and Oval in the Square of St. Peter’s, New York, 1974.

Peter Rietbergen, Pausen, Prelaten, Bureaucraten: Aspecten van de geschiedenis van het Pausschap en de Pauselijke Staat in de 17e Eeuw, Nijmegen, 1983, Chapter VII: “A Vision Come True. Pope Alexander VII, Gianlorenzo Bernini and the Colonnades of St. Peter’s, 1655-1667,” pp. 295-358. See also the English article of the same title in the Mededeelingen van het Nederlandsch Historisch Instituut te Rome, 44, N.S., 9-10, 1983, pp. 111-64

Tod Marder, Bernini and the Art of Architecture, New York, 1998, pp. 123-149

Rudolf Wittkower, “A Counter-Project to Bernini’s Piazza S. Pietro,” in Studies in the Italian Baroque, London, 1975, pp. 61-82

Rudolf Wittkower, “The Third Art of Bernini’s Piazza S. Pietro,” in Studies in the Italian Baroque, London, 1975, pp. 53-60

Irving Lavin, Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini, 3, Bernini at St. Peter’s: The Pilgrimage, London, 2012

Irving Lavin, “Footsteps on the Way to Redemption. The Pedestals of Bernini’s Baldacchino in St. Peter’s,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine (2009), Rome, 2012, pp. 245-313; reprinted in Irving Lavin, Visible Spirit: The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini, 3, Bernini at St. Peter’s: The Pilgrimage, London, 2012, pp. 41-130

Maria/Antonia Nocco, “La fortuna critica della Cathedra Petri di Gian Lorenzo Bernini,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 315-47

Estelle Lingo, Mochi’s Edge and Bernini’s Baroque, London, Turnhout, 2017, pp. 149-207

Tomb of Urban VIII Philipp Fehl, “Improvisation and the Artist’s Responsability in St. Peter’s, Rome: Papal Tombs by Bernini and Canova,” Akten des XXV. Internationalen Kongresses für Kunstgeschichte (1983), Vienna, 1985, vol. 9, pp. 111-123

Howard McP. Davis, “Bees on the Tomb of Urban VIII,” Source, 8-9, 1989, pp. 40-48

Irving Lavin, “Bernini’s Bumbling Barberini Bees,” in Barocke Inszenierung, ed. Joseph Imorde, Fritz Neumeyer, Tristan Weddingen, Zürich, 1999, pp. 50-71

Afterlife and Influence Pierre de la Ruffinière du Prey, “English Emulation of Saint Peter’s from Vitruvius Britannicus to Bibliotheca Radcliviana,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 581-93

Short List of Works in German and Italian J.A.F. Orbaan, Der Abbruch Alt-Sankt-Peters 1605-1615, Berlin, 1919 (Beiheft to Jahrbuch der Königlich Preuszischen Kunstsammlungen, 39, 1918)

Franz Graf Wolff Metternich, Die Erbauung der Peterskirche zu Rom im 16. Jahrhundert, Vienna and Munich, 1972 (plates of all the early drawings for St. Peter’s).

Franz Graf Wolff Metternich, Bramante und St. Peter, Munich, 1975 (his collected essays on St. Peter’s)

Christoph Frommel, “Die Peterskirche unter Papst Julius II. im Licht neuer Dokumente,” Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, XVI, 1976, pp. 57-136

Christoph Frommel, “ ‘Cappella Iulia’: Die Grabkapella Julius’ II in Neu-St. Peter,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 40, 1977, pp. 26-62

Christoph Frommel, “Raffaels späte Utopie von St. Peter,” Achim Gnann and Heinz Widauer, eds., Festshcrift für Konrad Oberhuber, eds. Milan, 2000, pp. pp. 56-67

Christoph Frommel, “Proposte per una revisione del corpus dei disegni di Bramante,” Opus Incertum, 3, 2008 [2010] (Numero 5: Disegni rinascimentali di architettura), pp. 38-55

Christoph Frommel, “La progettazione del presbiterio di San Pietro da Niccolò V a Giulio II,” in Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012, pp. 171-96

Christof Thoenes, “Madernos St.-Peter-Entwürfe,” in An Architectural Progress in the Renaissance and Baroque...Essays Presented to Hellmut Hager (Papers in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University, 8), eds. H. Millon and S. Munshower, University Park, 1992, pp. 170-93

Christof Thoenes, “Alt- und neu-St.-Peter unter einem Dach. Zu Antonio da Sangallos ‘Muro Divisorio’,” in Architektur und Kunst im Abendland. Festschrift zur Vollendung des 65. Lebensjahres von Günter Urban, Rome, 1992, pp. 51-61

Christof Thoenes, “Pianta centrale e pianta longitudinale nel nuovo S. Pietro,” in Jean Guillaume, ed., L’Eglise dans l’architecture de la Renaissance (1990), Paris, 1995, pp. 91-106

Franz Krauss and Christof Thoenes, “Il progretto di Bramante per la cupola di San Pietro,” in Cristiano Tessari, ed., San Pietro che non c’è da Bramante a Sangallo il Giovane, Milan, 1996, pp. 179-96

Christof Thoenes, “Über einige Anomalien am Bau der römischen Peterskirche,” Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 39, 2009/2010, pp. 43-63

Alessandro Brodini, “Michelangelo e la volta della Cappella del Re di Francia in San Pietro,” in Annali di Architettura, 17, 2005 [2006], pp. 115-126

Alessandro Brodini, Michelangelo a San Pietro. Progetto, cantiere e funzione delle cupole minori, Rome, 2009

Georg Satzinger and Sebastian Schütze, eds., Sank Peter in Rom 1506-2006. Beiträge der internationalen Tagung vom 22.-25. Februar 2006 in Bonn, Munich, 2008

Anna Bortolozzi, “Il completamento del nuovo San Petro sotto il pontificato di Paolo V: disegni e dibattiti 1605-1613,” Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 39, 2009/2010, pp.281-328

Vitale Zanchettin, “Tamburo e cupola di San Pietro nella concezione di Antonio da Sangallo il Giovane,” in Ordnung und Wandel in der römischen Architektur der Frühen Neuzeit. Kunsthistorische Studien zu Ehren von Christof Thoenes, ed. Hermann Schlimme and Lother Sickel, Munich, 2011, pp. 69-84

Federico Bellini, La Basilica di San Pietro: da Michelangelo a Della Porta, 2 vols., Rome, 2011

Giovanni Morello, ed., La Basilica di San Pietro. Fortuna e imagine, Rome, 2012

Kaspar Zollikofer, Die Cappella Gregoriana. Der erste Innenraum von Neu-Sankt-Peter in Rom und seine Genese, Basel, 2016