Title & Author:

The power of imagery : essays on Rome, Italy & imagination / edited by Peter van Kessel.

Publication:

Roma : Apeiron, ©1993.

Description:

336 pages, [64] pages de plates : illustrations, plans, facsimiles ; 23 cm.

Series:

Saggi ; 3

Notes:
"What the authors have in common is that they all stayed at the Netherlands Institute in Rome."--Introduction.
Index: p. 334-336.
Bibliographie: pages 257-333.
Image building through woven images. The tapestry collection of the Papal court, 1447-1471 / H. Smit -- Loyalty and identity in the Low Countries. Regional, national and global imagery in the sixteenth century / B. Kempers -- The origin of an image. Fakhr al-Din Ma'n's exile in Tuscany (1613-1618) / R. van Leeuwen -- The return of the muses. Preliminary remarks on the theme: image building as cultural policy during the Barberini pontificate, 1623-1644 / P. J. A. N. Rietbergen -- Image building by means of church restorations. Conservation of ancient monuments, evangelic diligence and church policy under the pontificate of Pius IX during the years 1850-1870 / S. Mulder -- The state in the provinces. The prefecture as a palace after the unification / N. Randeraad -- Pax Augusta and Pax Mussoliniana. The fascist cult of the romanità and the use of "Augustan" conceptions at the Piazza Augusto Imperatore in Rome / R. Visser -- Artistic imagination versus religious function. Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Annunciation at Montesiepi / V. M. Schmidt -- Giovanni De' Vecchi's fresco cycle and its commissioners in the Rosary Chapel in Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome / J. Heideman -- Heavenly images in the churches of Rome. Stage scenography for the Forty Hour devotion during the seventeenth and eighteenth century as a spectacular alternative to the street theater of carnival / H. Lulofs -- Image and blindfold. "Roman charity" and the piety of Christine de Pizan / E. Schulte van Kessel -- The curate of Malgrate or the problem of clerical competence in counter-Reformation Milan / W. de Boer -- Medieval images of the Eternal City. Rome seen through the Mirabilia Romae / N. Miedema -- Freemasons against the Pope. The role of Anti-Masonry in the Ultramontane propaganda in Rome, 1790-1900 / A. van de Sande -- From shepherd to king. Changes in the image and the position of the papacy among the Dutch Catholics in the nineteenth century / H. de Valk -- The Paris commune and the Italian republicans / P. van der Mark.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

8885978029
9788885978027

Subject:

Christianity and art Catholic Church.
Art, Italian History.
Art, Roman History.
Christianisme et art Église catholique.
Art italien Histoire.
Art romain Histoire.
Rome Histoire.
Geschichte
Kunst
Politik
Rome (Italy) In art.
Italy In art.
Italy History.
Rome History.
Italie Histoire.
Italy
Italy Rome
Italien

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Art

Added entries:

Kessel, Peter van.
Nederlands Historisch Instituut te Rome.
Saggi (Apeiron editori) ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88093
Call No.: ID DG441.P6; ID:95-B4347
Status: Available