Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome (Paperback)

Chiara Franceschini

ISBN 10: 8899765936 / ISBN 13: 9788899765934

Editore: Officina Libraria, Milan, 2020

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Paperback. Roman church interiors throughout the Early Modern age were endowed with rich historical and visual significance. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in anticipation of and following the Council of Trent, and in response to the expansion of the Roman Curia, the chapel became a singular arena in which wealthy and powerful Roman families, as well as middle-class citizens, had the opportunity to demonstrate their status and role in Roman society. In most cases the chapels were conceived not as isolated spaces, but as part of a more complex system, which involved the nave and the other chapels within the church, in a dialogue among the arts and the patrons of those other spaces. This volume explores this historical and artistic phenomenon through a number of examples involving the patronage of prominent Roman families such as the Chigis, Spadas, Caetanis, Cybos and important artists and architects such as Federico Zuccari, Giacomo della Porta, Carlo Maderno, Alessandro Algardi, Pietro da Cortona, Carlo Maratta. AUTHORS: Chiara Franceschini is associate professor of Early Modern Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich. Her publications include Storia del limbo (2017) on images of limbo from Mantegna to Michelangelo as well as essays on the political use of antiquities and on family chapels in pre-modern Rome. She directs the ERC project SACRIMA on The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe on the interrelations between art and religion in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Europe. Steven F. Ostrow, a specialist in the art of Post-Tridentine Italy and Roman Baroque sculpture, is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (1996), and co-editor of and contributor to Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy (1998), Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays (2006), and Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture (2014). Patrizia Tosini teaches Early Modern Art History at the Third University of Rome. She has published several works on the figurative arts in the age of Counter-Reformation, among which a monograph on the painter Girolamo Muziano Dalla Maniera alla Natura (2008) and Immagini ritrovate. La decorazione di villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento (2015). SELLING POINT: . New discoveries on the patronage and art of several important chapels in Roman churches 120 colour, 10 b/w images New discoveries on the patronage and art of several important chapels in Roman churches, exploring thie historical and artistic phenomenon through a number of examples. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome (Paperback)
• Editore: Officina Libraria, Milan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8899765936
• ISBN 13: 9788899765934
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: new

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Riassunto

Fin dal primo Rinascimento le cappelle delle chiese di Roma furono decorate con ricchi corredi. Ma fu nel Cinquecento e nel Seicento che le cappelle diventarono gli spazi dove le grandi famiglie patrizie e l’alta borghesia romana poterono dimostrare il proprio prestigio sociale. Nella ricchezza degli apparati trionfò l’autorappresentazione di compagnie, casate e grandi uomini. Spesso le cappelle venivano concepite come parti di un sistema più complesso, allargato alla navata e alle altre cappelle, in un dialogo tra le arti e i committenti dei diversi ambienti. La «voce» individuale di ogni cappella (i suoi fini e significati) rispondeva in questo modo al più vasto «discorso» corale delle arti all’interno della chiesa, con esiti sempre più articolati e spettacolari negli anni del Barocco. Il volume indaga questo fenomeno – così rilevante, ed esclusivo della capitale pontificia – nell’esame di diversi casi tra XVI e XVII secolo. Diversi anche i tagli e gli approcci dei contributi, dai riflessi storici, filologici, iconografici, che aprono ad uno sguardo nuovo i penetrali delle chiese più venerate di Roma.

Informazioni sull?autore

Chiara Franceschini : après des études à lEcole normale supérieure de Pise, elle a travaillé au Warburg Institute et enseigné au University College de Londres. Depuis 2016, elle est chercheuse à la Ludwig Maximilian Universität de Monaco, où elle dirige lInstitut für Kunstgeschichte. Steven Ostrow : diplômé de Princeton, il enseigne lHistoire de lart à lUniversité du Minnesota, où il est responsable du Center for Early Modern History. Patrizia Tosini : spécialisée en Histoire de lart médiéval et moderne à lUniversité de Rome « La Sapienza », elle a travaillé à lUniversité de Warwick puis à la Witt Library et au Courtauld Institute de Londres. Elle est actuellement chercheuse à lUniversité de Cassino et du Lazio Méridional.