Author: Mary HollingsworthPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
The Possessions of a Cardinal
Author: Mary HollingsworthPublisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A set of case studies exploring the tastes, passions, and possessions of cardinals in Renaissance and Baroque Rome.
Possession
Author: Erin ThompsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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.
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court
Author: Lucinda ByattPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000637905
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.
Sacred Possessions
Author: Gail FeigenbaumPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060422
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context.
The path of pleasantness
Author: Giulia VidoriPublisher: Firenze University Press
ISBN: 885518265X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
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.
A Guide to the Principal Classes of Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office
Author: Great Britain. Public Record OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII.
Author: The Cardinal
Author: Henry Morton RobinsonPublisher: Pocket Books of Canada
ISBN:
Category : Cardinals
Languages : en
Pages : 659
Book Description
Author: EDWARD EDWARDS