Portrait Cultures of the Early Modern Cardinal / / ed. by Piers Baker-Bates, Irene Brooke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• HerausgeberIn: Baker-Bates, Piers,; Brooke, Irene,
• MitwirkendeR: Bates, Piers,; Brooke, Irene,; Carrabino, Danielle,; Ferrari, Sarah,; Jackson, Philippa,; Maxson, Brian,; Pattanaro, Alessandra,; Pattenden, Miles,; Richardson, Carol,; Schraven, Minou,; True, Thomas,; Witte, Arnold,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (390 p.)

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 analysed within biographical studies of the represented individual, in relation to the artists who created them, or within the broader genre of portraiture. No more profound investigation of these as a specific category of object has ever been attempted. This volume 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Cardinals and their Images -- 1. Portraying the Princes of the Church -- 2. The Early Modern Cardinal -- Part I – Individuality and Identity: Florence and Rome -- 3. Visual and Verbal Portraits of Cardinals in Fifteenth-Century Florence -- 4. Dead Ringers: Cardinals and their Effigies, 1400–1520 -- Part II – Divided Loyalties: Venice and Rome -- 5. The Role of Cardinals’ Portraits in Venice: The Case of the Grimani Family and Some Thoughts on the Correr MS Morosini Grimani 270 -- 6. 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 -- Part III – Collecting and Display: Portraits and Worldly Goods -- 7. Renaissance Cardinals and Pontifical Mules -- 8. Portraits as Symbols: Cardinals’ Portraits in the Roman and Local Collections of Some Counter-Reformation Cardinals -- 9. Portraits as a Sign of Possession: Cardinals and their Protectorships in Early Modern Rome -- Part IV – Post-Tridentine Piety: The Devout Cardinal -- 10. Group Portraits of Cardinal Bembo and his Friends in the Wake of Trent -- 11. Two Cardinal Portraits by Scipione Pulzone in the Harvard Art Museums and their Related Versions -- 12. Miracle-Working Portraits of a Cardinal Saint: Managing the Devotional Medals of San Carlo Borromeo -- Conclusion: Cardinal Portraits beyond Italy -- 13. Portraying the Ideal Spanish Tridentine Prelate -- Index