Portrait cultures of the early modern cardinal / edited by Piers Baker-Bates and Irene Brooke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker-Bates, Piers, editor.

Brooke, Irene, editor.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cardinals in art.

Cardinals--Portraits--History and criticism.

Cardinals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (381 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The visual legacy of early modern cardinals constitutes a vast and extremely rich body of artworks, many of superb quality, in a variety of media, often by well-known artists and skilled craftsmen. Yet cardinal portraits have primarily been analyzed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal addresses questions surrounding the production, collection, and status of the cardinal portrait, covering diverse geographies and varied media. Examining the development of cardinals' imagery in terms of their multi-layered identities, this volume considers portraits of 'princes of the Church' as a specific cultural phenomenon reflecting cardinals' unique social and political position.

Contents:

Introduction : cardinals and their images

Portraying the princes of the church / Piers Baker-Bates and Irene Brooke

The early modern cardinal : an historical appraisal / Miles Pattenden

Visual and verbal portraits of cardinals in fifteenth-century Florence / Brian Jeffrey Maxson

Dead ringers : cardinals and their effigies, 1400-1520 / Carol M. Richardson

The role of cardinals' portraits in Venice : the case of the Grimani family and some thoughts on the Correr MS Morosini Grimani 270 / Sarah Ferrari

Role playing : cardinals in historical action in Leandro Bassano's Honorius III approving the rule of St. Dominic in 1216 and the War of the Interdict / Alessandra Pattanaro

Renaissance cardinals and pontifical mules / Philippa Jackson

Portraits as symbols : cardinals' portraits in the Roman and local collections of some Counter-Reformation cardinals / Thomas-Leo True

Portraits as a sign of possession : cardinals and their protectorships in early modern Rome / Arnold Witte

Group portraits of Cardinal Bembo and his friends in the Wake of Trent / Irene Brooke

Two cardinal portraits by Scipione Pulzone in the Harvard Art Museums and their related versions / Danielle Carrabino

Miracle-working portraits of a cardinal saint : managing the devotional medals of San Carlo Borromeo / Minou Schraven

Portraying the ideal Spanish Tridentine prelate / Piers Baker-Bates.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

90-485-4456-4

OCLC:

1265461101