The artist and the eternal city : Bernini, Pope Alexander VII, and the making of Rome /

By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome, celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi, the head of the world, had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pop...

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