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Author : Mary Hollingsworth,Carol M. Richardson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215317863
A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
Author : Lucinda Byatt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000637908
Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics, above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change from republic to duchy. A widely respected patron and scholar throughout his life, his sudden death during the conclave of 1549–50 led to allegations of poison that an autopsy appears to confirm. This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Rome’s resurgence and acted as hubs of knowledge located on the fault lines of politics and reform in church and state, hospitable spaces that can be analysed in the context of entanglements in Florentine and Roman cultural and political patronage, and intersections between the princely court and a more professional and complex knowledge and practice of household management in the consumer and service economy of early modern Rome. Based on an array of archival sources and on three treatises whose authors were closely linked to Ridolfi’s court, this monograph explores these multidisciplinary intersections to allow the more traditional fields of church and political history to be approached from different angles. Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court will appeal to all those interested in the organisation of these elite establishments and their place in sixteenth-century Roman society, the life and patronage of Niccolò Ridolfi in the context of the Florentine exiles who desired a return to republicanism, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
Author : Erin Thompson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300221008
Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world's most renowned museums. Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Possession shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's accounts of history's most infamous collectors—from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses from his collection of Greek vases—are as mesmerizing as they are revealing.
Author : Miles Pattenden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198797449
Miles Pattenden takes an analytic approach to the papal elections of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries, with their ceremonial pomp and high drama, to understand the broader history of the early modern papacy and how this elite political group approached decision-making and problem-solving through four centuries of dramatic change in the Church
Author : Jan L. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004526938
Jan L. de Jong studies how tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600) did not just function as a place to bury the dead, but as monuments of mourning, memory, and meditation on life, death and the hereafter.
Author : Jill Burke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351575706
From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts in the West. Artists from all over Europe came to the city to see its classical remains and its celebrated contemporary art works, as well as for the opportunity to work for its many wealthy patrons. They contributed to the eclecticism of the Roman artistic scene, and to the diffusion of 'Roman' artistic styles in Europe and beyond. Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome is the first book-length study to consider identity creation and artistic development in Rome during this period. Drawing together an international cast of key scholars in the field of Renaissance studies, the book adroitly demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman court and urban culture - with its elected 'monarchy', its large foreign population, and unique sense of civic identity - interacted with developments in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an alternative history of the visual arts in early modern Rome, one that questions traditional periodisation and stylistic categorisation.
Author : Una Roman D’Elia
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271077499
Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex history of shifting interpretations given to the ostrich in scientific, literary, religious, poetic, and satirical texts and images, D’Elia demonstrates the rich variety of ways in which people made sense of this living “monster,” which was depicted as the embodiment of heresy, stupidity, perseverance, justice, fortune, gluttony, and other virtues and vices. Because Raphael was revered as a god of art, artists imitated and competed with his ostrich, while religious and cultural critics complained about the potential for misinterpreting such obscure imagery. This book not only considers the history of the ostrich but also explores how Raphael’s painting forced viewers to question how meaning is attributed to the natural world, a debate of central importance in early modern Europe at a time when the disciplines of modern art history and natural history were developing. The strangeness of Raphael’s ostrich, situated at the crossroads of art, religion, myth, and natural history, both reveals lesser-known sides of Raphael’s painting and illuminates major cultural shifts in attitudes toward nature and images in the Renaissance. More than simply an examination of a single artist or a single subject, Raphael’s Ostrich offers an accessible, erudite, and charming alternative to Vasari’s pervasive model of the history of sixteenth-century Italian art.
Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783846059906
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office,Samuel Robert Scargill-Bird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Archives
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011650843
Author : Edward Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Book collectors
ISBN : HARVARD:32044055031397
Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153581
An investigation into the role of the high-ranking churchman in this period - who they were, what they did, and how they perceived themselves.
Author : EDWARD EDWARDS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:afa0385:0001.001
Author : Giulia Vidori
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788855182652
Ippolito II d’Este (1509-1572), cardinal and prince of Ferrara, played a crucial role in shaping the political and cultural connections between Italy and France. Seen by his contemporaries as staunchly ‘French’, his life rather followed a difficult balance between the political and spatial entities – Rome, Paris, and Ferrara – through which he continuously moved and from which he derived his power. Following his career as cardinal protector of the Valois crown, royal administrator of Siena on behalf of Henry II, and papal legate to France on the eve of the Wars of Religion, this book argues that Ippolito’s apparent diplomatic access ultimately weakened his family’s position in Italy and left it ill-equipped to compete in the changing politics of the peninsula.
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Archives
ISBN : WISC:89101544997
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11001939