Rom unter Sixtus V. Stadtplanung als Verräumlichung von Heilsgeschichte

• Autores: Peter Stephan
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 72, Nº. 2, 2009, págs. 165-214
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • A study of Pope Sixtus V's city planning of Rome in anticipation of the celebration of the Holy Year in 1600. In his urban program, the pope was guided by the ambition of transforming the entire city into a holy landscape. He sought to visualize the history of salvation through architecture and art to transfigure the city into a “model territory” of Christian, divine authority. The urban space was understood not only as a built surface but also as the coherent concretization of broad spiritual concepts—social and confessional disciplining, the encoding of heraldic-symbolic and Biblical concepts, the apologetic function of the urban space and its role in the theological controversy spurred by the schism of Avignon, the combination of magnificence and humility, and the establishment and safeguarding of authority. This essay is a revised version of a lecture delivered at the “Heilige Landschaft” (Holy landscape) summer course of the Bibliothek Oechslin in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, in 2007.