Genius of Michelangelo

The New St. Peter's Basilica (1x31)

Air date: Jan 01, 2007

This lecture is devoted to Christendom's finest monument and one of Michelangelo's most successful architectural achievements—the design of a new St. Peter's—undertaken in 1546 after nearly 30 years of ill-designed accretions. It would remain a constant concern for the rest of his life.