Architectonics of the Pope Sixtus V

Papa Siksto V. (1585. – 1590.) bitno je pridonio reformi kršćanske religije, a urbanističkom i arhitektonskom revitalizacijom Rima postavio je temelje novovjekovnog gradograditeljstva. Kao sin hrvatskog izbjeglice iz Boke Kotorske označavao je svoje podrijetlo naglašenom brigom za hrvatski Kaptol i crkvu svetog Jeronima na obali Tibera. Želeći omogućiti hodočasnicima prohodan obilazak sedam kultnih rimskih bazilika, trasirao je i djelomično izgradio i danas prisutnu mrežu ulica preko cijele površine Rima, koja će postati uzor baroknog urbanizma i time koncepcije razvitka europskih gradova. Izgradnjom Lateranske, Kvirinalske i Vatikanske palače ostvario je standard rimskog graditeljstva i europskih monarhističkih palača. Izgradnjom Vatikanske biblioteke osnovao je uzorak reprezentativne bibliotečne arhitekture. Postavljanjem obelisaka i fontana po trgovima i raskrižjima otkrio je kvalitetu barokne urbane akcentacije. Postavljanjem kupole ponad bazilike svetog Petra načinio je konstruktivno izvanredno smjelu i oblikovno atraktivnu simboliku snage vjere. Obnovio je preko stotinu rimskih crkvi za dobrobit rimskog puka i brojnih romara, a sagradio je samo jednu crkvu za svoju dušu: Hrvatsku crkvu svetog Jeronima.The Pope Sixtus V (1585 – 1590) contributed to the reform of Christian religion considerably and with his town-planning and architectonic revitalization of Rome he laid foundations to modern architecture. As he was son of a Croatian refugee from Boka Kotorska he expressed his Croatian origin with distinct care for Croatian Chapter and the church of St. Jerome on the banks of the Tiber. With his good intentions to enable pilgrims a passable tour around seven classic Roman basilicas he traced and partly constructed a street network around Rome that would become the role model of the baroque town-planning and eventually the European town development concept. By constructing Lateran, Quirinal and Vatican palaces, he set the standard to Roman architecture and European monarchic palaces. By constructing the Vatican library he set the role model of representative librarian architecture. He revealed the quality of baroque town-planning accentuation by placing obelisks and fountains on squares and crossroads. The construction of the dome above the St. Paul’s basilica reflected an extraordinary constructionally daring and formally attractive symbolics of the power of faith. He restored over hundred Roman churches for the benefit of the Roman folk and numerous pilgrims and he built one church wholeheartedly: the Croatian church of St. Jerome