An edition of How to see the Vatican
(1914)
How To See The Vatican
by Douglas Sladen
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Publish Date
1914
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English
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Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano, Popes, ArtPlaces
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How To See The Vatican
1914, London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., New York, J. Pott and Co.
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Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Publishers' Note v
Preface vii
A List of the Popes, with their Dates, Places of Birth, and Family Names xix
About the Vatican in General.
CHAP.
I. Introduction i
II. What the Vatican consists of. Being a specific classification and explanation, with a numbered plan, for the first time given in English, of all the vast building — the largest in the world — known as the Vatican, which comprises the Palace of the Popes, six chapels, a dozen courts, many museums, sculpture galleries, and loggie ; the Borgia Apartments ; Guard-rooms, factories, libraries, gardens, etc. etc. ; the famous Vatican Picture Gallery, tapestries, crypts, etc. etc. 14
Parts of the Vatican not generally shown to the Public.
III. The Story of the Vatican Hill in ancient Roman times, when it was the farm from which Cincinnatus was called to be Dictator, and contained the Garden of Agrippina, the mother of Nero ; and the Circus where St. Peter and other Christians suffered martyrdom 45
IV. The Story of the Building of the Vatican at various epochs 56
V. A Description of Old St. Peter's, the great basilica founded by Constantine the Great, which existed for a thousand years before it was destroyed to make room for the present St. Peter's. Never before fully described in any English book 86
VI. On the Remains of Old St. Peter's still preserved in Rome 117
VII. The Grotte Vaticane, or Crypt of St. Peter's; which contain the Tomb of St. Peter and the Tombs of the Popes, and Shrines from Old St Peters. The Grotte Nuove, North Portion 138
VIII. The Grotte Vecchie — The eastern part of the Crypt 158
IX. The Grotte Nuove, south side 182
X. Nicholas V. and the Vatican : the Chapel of Nicholas V. 190
XI. The Vatican Library, with its thirty-five thousand manuscripts : Picture Gallery, Ancient Roman Frescoes, Christian and Profane Museums 213
XII. The Visits of Montaigne and Misson to the Vatican Library 242
XIII. Leo XIII. and the foundation of the New Leonine Library where the printed books are now kept 253
XIV. The Vatican Archives and the work of Cardinal Mai 266
XV. The Private Gardens of the Pope 278
XVI. The Pope's Coach-house : an Account of the old Cavalcata : the Vatican Workshops of Mosaics and Tapestries 294
XVII. Raffaelle's Tapestries 309
XVIII. The Paoline and Leonine Chapels and the Pope's Private Tapestry Rooms 317
XIX. The Sistine Treasury 329
XX. The Sacristy of St. Peter's 339
XXI. The Dome of St. Peter's 345
XXII. The Borgia Apartments 353
XXIII. The Etruscan Museum 386
Index 407
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's. Showing the Confessio of Matteo Pollaiuolo on the right, and the light shining from St. Peter's Tomb upon the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
The Court of the Casino of Pius iv. in the Vatican Gardens 2
The Dalmatic of Charlemagne in the Sacristy of St. Peter's 8
FACING PAGE
Map of the Vatican 10
BACKING ON PAGE
Ground Plan of the Vatican 14
From Pistolesi's II Vaticano Descritto ed Illustrate.
Charity. Carved by Mino da Fiesole for Paul II.'s Mausoleum, now in the Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's Crypt 16
Faith. By Mino da Fiesole, in the Grotte Nuove in St. Peter's Crypt 17
FACING PAGE
Giovanni da Udine's Loggia before it was glazed 24
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Fire in the Borgo, from the painting by Raffaelle in his Stanze. Showing the exterior of Old St. Peter's 30
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
The Scala Regia of the Vatican. Designed by Bernini 32
The famous Aldobrandini Wedding in the Vatican Library.
The finest picture which has survived from Classical times 36
BACKING ON PAGE
St. Peter's and the Vatican. The top wing on the right hand contains the apartments of the Pope 44
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Piazza of St. Peter's as it is to-day ; on the right, above the Colonnade, is the Palace of the Vatican, the right wing of which contains the apartments of the Pope 45
BACKING ON PAGE
Panvinio's Plan showing the relation of Nero's Circus to St. Peter's, and Hadrian's Circus to his Tomb, now the Castle of Santo Angelo 48
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Circus of Nero, where St. Peter was executed, as reconstructed by G. Fontana 49
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
FACING PAGE
The Crucifixion of St. Peter — by Giotto — now in the Sacristy of St. Peter's. The earliest known work of art in which the Tomb of Romulus and the Tomb of Caius Cestius are shown as the Duae Metae 52
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
Sarcophagus of Nicolas v. in the Grotte Vecchie of St. Peter's Crypt. The carvings of Mino da Fiesole in the Crypt belonged to the Mausoleum over it 62
BACKING ON PAGE
The Courtyard of S. Damaso before the arcades were glazed by Pius IX. Drawn and engraved by G. Fontana. The apartments of the Pope occupy the right wing 64
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Court of S. Damaso — since Pius IX. glazed its arcades.
The Pope's apartments are to the right, where the carriage is standing 65
FACING PAGE
The Pavilion of the Casino of Pius iv. in the Vatican Gardens 72
The Ceiling of the Sala Regia 74
Giampietro Chattard's Plan of St. Peter's and its Portico 78
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
Exterior of Old St. Peter's, Rome. Reproduced by permission from the British Museum Guide to the Early Christian and Byzantine Antiquities 84
The Grotte Vecchie of St. Peter's Crypt. Showing the Sarcophagus of the Old Pretender on the extreme right, and the urn containing the praecordia of Pius ix. next to it - 90
Filippo Bonanni's reconstruction of the Basilica of Constantine 96
The Porch of St. Peter's 102
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
FACING PAGE
The Donation of Constantine, by Giulio Romano and other pupils of Raffaelle, in the Stanze. Showing the interior of Old St. Peter's 110
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
Old St. Peter's, with the procession transporting the body of St. Gregory the Great in the foreground, and the dome of the present church rising behind. Painted by P. Brill 112
Giotto's (much restored) Mosaic, called the Navicella, in the Porch of St. Peter's 118
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The bronze doors removed from Old St. Peter's to the present Church. They were made by Filarete and Ghini, and the bottom right panel shows the Tomb of Caius Cestius and Tomb of Romulus at the Duae Metae 120
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Tomb of Sixtus IV. in the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. This is the chapel where the dead Pope lies in state 126
The Statue of St Peter in St. Peter's. It dates from the sixth century 130
The Execution of St. Peter. Carved by Matteo Pollaiuolo for the Confessio of Old St. Peter's, now in the Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's Crypt 132
The Tabernacle of the Holy Lance in Old St. Peter's. From the fresco in the Crypt 136
The Tabernacle of the Volto Santo in Old St. Peter's. From the fresco in the Crypt 136
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
Plan of the Crypt of St. Peter's 138
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
The Temptation. Carved by Mino da Fiesole for Paul II.'s Mausoleum, now in the Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's Crypt 142
Chapel of the Tomb of St. Peter, in the Crypt. The altar is almost over the Tomb 146
The Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus in the Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's Crypt 150
FACING PAGE
The Creation of Woman. Carved by Mino da Fiesole for Paul III.'s Mausoleum, now in the Grotte Nuove of St. Peter's Crypt 154
The marble Shrine of the Virgin now in the Crypt of St. Peter's 158
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano.
The Mausoleum of Boniface VIII. in Old St Peter's 162
The Mausoleum of Paul II. in Old St. Peter's, from which the Mino da Fiesole sculptures in the Crypt were taken 162
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
The Tomb of Hadrian IV., the only English Pope, behind ; the Tomb of the Borgia Popes, Calixtus ill. and Alexander vi., in front The effigy is that of Calixtus III. 172
The interior of St. Peter's. Showing Canova's monument to the last three Stuarts, erected by George iv. when Prince Regent 178
The Statue of St Peter, from the Old Basilica, seated on the throne of Benedict xu. in the Chapel of S. M. della Bocciata in the Crypt of St. Peter's 182
Pope Benedict XII. and a fresco of Old St. Peter's on a wall in St Peter's Crypt 188
Alfarano's Plan, showing how Old St. Peter's and the present Cathedral rest upon the Circus of Nero 192
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano,
St. Lawrence. By Fra Angelico ; in the Chapel of Nicholas V. 210
The Sala Sistina, or Grand Hall, of the Vatican Library 232
This is a Bull of Pope Clement VIII., dated "Rome at St. Peter's in the year of the Incarnation of Our Lord, one thousand and five hundred and ninety-two on the Kalends of January in the first year of our Pontificate" 270
The Pope's Classical Garden 280
Giardino della Pigna. Showing the Niccio of Bramante and the Pigna (pine cone) and Peacocks which came from the Atrium of Old St. Peter's 292
The Sistine Chapel, where the election of the Pope takes place when it is held in the Vatican 310
FACING PAGE
The Paoline Chapel, used by the Cardinals when they are in Conclave 318
The Leonine Chapel, called also the Loggia of Paul V. and Sala della Beatificazione, from which the Pope goes into the Gallery of St Peter's to bless the people after his election ; used also for Canonizations 322
The Sala Ducale of Bernini in the Vatican. Drawn by G. Fontana 324
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano,
Miniatures by Giotto in a manuscript in the Library of the Canons of St. Peter's 344
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano
St Peter's. Plan showing how the Dome and the Shrine Galleries of its piers are ascended 350
From Pistolesi's Il Vaticano,
David standing on the Head of Goliath. On the ceiling of the Borgia Rooms 354
Ancient Bronze Chariot in the Etruscan Museum 388
Etruscan Museum in the Vatican. Showing the armour worn by a Roman soldier, and Etruscan shields, mirrors, and cauldrons 392
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