Main entry:

Ostrow, Steven F.

Title & Author:

Art and spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome : the Sistine and Pauline chapels in S. Maria Maggiore / Steven F. Ostrow.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Description:

xxi, 385 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Monuments of papal Rome

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-376) and index.
1. The Sistine Chapel as Franciscan Shrine -- 2. The Sistine Chapel's Fresco Cycle -- 3. The Pauline Chapel and Its Altar Tabernacle of the Virgin -- 4. The Pauline Chapel's Fresco Cycle -- Document 1. Contract for the Altar Tabernacle of the Virgin -- Document 2. Final Settlement of Accounts with Giulio Buratti and Contract for the Altar Tabernacle's Shutters -- Document 3. Papal Chirograph Ordering Payment to Pompeo Targone -- Document 4. Letter to Paul V on Behalf of Pompeo Targone -- "Ragionamento fatto dal M.R.P. Castello sopra le due Capelle in S. ta Maria maggiore ... 3 di Febraro 1613" -- The Program for the Fresco Cycle in the Pauline Chapel.
Text mainly in English, with some Italian.

Summary:

Between 1585 and 1621, Popes Sixtus V and Paul V focused on the basilica of S. Maria Maggiore, Rome's preeminent Marian shrine, as the site for the most wide-ranging expression of their spiritual visions. In two separate, though independent, campaigns, they commissioned colossal chapels, which they adorned with elaborate programs of painting and sculpture. Unprecedented in their scale, richness of decoration, and multiple functions, the Sistine and Pauline Chapels represent two of the most complex public monuments built in the papal capital during the Counter-Reformation period. Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome offers an interdisciplinary study of the chapels, providing an interpretive reading of their artistic programs as an expression of their patrons' personal spirituality and of the larger institutional concerns of the papacy as it confronted the Protestant challenge.
Viewed within their religious, political, and social contexts, the historical meaning of the chapels are explored as a means to advance our understanding of the ways in which the post-Tridentine Church enlisted the visual arts to communicate and advance its mission.

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ISBN:

0521470315
9780521470315

Subject:

Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590 Art patronage.
Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621 Art patronage.
Sixtus V, Pope, 1521-1590.
Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.
Paul V, pape, 1552-1621 Mécénat.
Sixte V, pape, 1520-1590 Mécénat.
Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590
Sixte V (pape ; 1521-1590) Mécénat.
Paul V (pape ; 1552-1621) Mécénat.
Cappella Sistina (Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy))
Cappella Paolina (Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy))
Cappella Sistina (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italie)
Cappella Paolina (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, Italie)
Christian art and symbolism Italy Rome Modern period, 1500-
Art, Italian Italy Rome.
Art, Renaissance Italy Rome.
Art, Baroque Italy Rome.
Art chrétien Italie Rome 1500-
Art italien Italie Rome.
Art de la Renaissance Italie Rome.
Art baroque Italie Rome.
Art, Baroque
Art, Italian
Art patronage
Art, Renaissance
Christian art and symbolism Modern period
Santa Maria Maggiore (kerk, Rome)
Kapellen (bouwkunst)
Decoratieprogramma's.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Modern period, 1500-
Contre-Réforme et art Italie Rome.
Art chrétien 1500-1800 Italie Rome (Italie)
Art de la Renaissance Italie Rome (Italie)
Art baroque Italie Rome (Italie)
Italy Rome
Vatican Cappella Sistina.
Vatican Cappella Paolina.
Rome (Italie) Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
Visual arts Special subjects Christianity
Rome (Italy)
Stained Glass.
Glass Painters.

Added entries:

Monuments of papal Rome.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 118273
Call No.: ID N7952.R6.O85; ID:96-B3455
Status: Available