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Ruinenlust and Monumental Wish Fulfillment: La Basilica di San Paolo rovinata e risorta

Sloan, Nathaniel
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This paper will focus on printed images of the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome produced directly following a fire that caused significant damage to the church in July, 1823. These printed depictions of the ruined church, which fit within the canon of representation established by Piranesi, may be interpreted within the context of recent historical events, including the French occupation of Rome in the first decades of the nineteenth century. Various factors, including the recent trauma of French occupation and the sense of ruinenlust ubiquitous in the period, contributed to the immense popularity of these images in the popular imagination. Through careful analysis of the reception of these images within the context described above, this paper aims to account for the continued popularity of images of the ruined church, even after the church had been entirely reconstructed. In addition, the thesis posits a typology of viewers that illustrates how various sorts of people alive in the early nineteenth century would have likely seen and related to these images.
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Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Fall 2019.
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2019
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Abbazia di S. Paolo fuori le mura (Rome, Italy)
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Sloan, Nathaniel. "Ruinenlust and Monumental Wish Fulfillment:La Basilica di San Paolo rovinata e risorta". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2019.
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