Richard Wittman is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European architectural history and theory.

• I. Fire in the Temple: 1. Disenchanting Histories; 2. 'A Portent, Beyond Statues Sweating Blood in the Forum…'; 3. Future Visions; 4. Broadening the Debate; 5. Reframing the Debate; 6. Catholic Romanticism; II. Resurrecting San Paolo: 7. Matters of Money; 8. Resisting Resurrection; 9. The End of a Generation; III. Reimagined Sacred Histories: 10. Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo; 11. Peter and Paul; 12. Material Histories; 13. Prelude to a Revolution; 14. Eighteen Forty-Eight; IV. From Paul to Mary: 15. Pius IX and Romantic Aesthetics; 16. Two Days in December.

'This book is eloquently written, eminently readable and based on wide research in continental archives.' Edmund Power, The Downside Review

Richard Wittman is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European architectural history and theory.

• I. Fire in the Temple: 1. Disenchanting Histories; 2. 'A Portent, Beyond Statues Sweating Blood in the Forum…'; 3. Future Visions; 4. Broadening the Debate; 5. Reframing the Debate; 6. Catholic Romanticism; II. Resurrecting San Paolo: 7. Matters of Money; 8. Resisting Resurrection; 9. The End of a Generation; III. Reimagined Sacred Histories: 10. Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo; 11. Peter and Paul; 12. Material Histories; 13. Prelude to a Revolution; 14. Eighteen Forty-Eight; IV. From Paul to Mary: 15. Pius IX and Romantic Aesthetics; 16. Two Days in December.

'This book is eloquently written, eminently readable and based on wide research in continental archives.' Edmund Power, The Downside Review

Richard Wittman is Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Architecture, Print Culture, and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century France, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European architectural history and theory.

• I. Fire in the Temple: 1. Disenchanting Histories; 2. 'A Portent, Beyond Statues Sweating Blood in the Forum…'; 3. Future Visions; 4. Broadening the Debate; 5. Reframing the Debate; 6. Catholic Romanticism; II. Resurrecting San Paolo: 7. Matters of Money; 8. Resisting Resurrection; 9. The End of a Generation; III. Reimagined Sacred Histories: 10. Luigi Poletti and the Challenge of Rebuilding San Paolo; 11. Peter and Paul; 12. Material Histories; 13. Prelude to a Revolution; 14. Eighteen Forty-Eight; IV. From Paul to Mary: 15. Pius IX and Romantic Aesthetics; 16. Two Days in December.

'This book is eloquently written, eminently readable and based on wide research in continental archives.' Edmund Power, The Downside Review