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

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 ind...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700
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Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
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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