A preview of the first volume of the Sacrima Series, Sacred Images and Normativity: Contested Forms in Early Modern Art, edited by Chiara Franceschini, is now available at the Brepols website.
Chiara Franceschini engages with “bad reviews” in Vasari and Michelangelo’s circles in a new article published as part of Bad Reception: Expressing Disapproval of Art in Early Modern Italy, edited by Diletta Gamberini, Jonathan K. Nelson, and Alessandro Nova.
Cloe Cavero‘s new article in the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes reconstructs the original context of Cajés’s altarpiece to offer a new perspective on the way in which religious art engaged with the tensions prompted by the issue of the purity of blood, as well as with anxieties related to family and procreation
Erin Giffin provides new insights on the seventeenth-century tradition of flower mosaics through the engravings of Pieter de Bailliu in her recent contribution to the Print Quarterly. (more…)
In the winter issue of I Tatti Studies, Erin Giffin proposes a new interpretation of the bronze Saint Peter cult statue in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome based on an unpublished print of the cult site by Giovanni Battista Braccelli.
Cloe Cavero’s new book chapter reconstructs the process of transformation of the image of Our Lady del Sagrario into the contact relic of the Virgin’s Descent by examining a series of artistic retoolings and spatial relocations within Toledo Cathedral.
In the new issue of the Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, Chiara Franceschini reconstructs and discusses the genesis, iconography, functions, and removal of two altarpieces dedicated to the Messinese Madonna della Lettera, respectively in Rome (1642) and in Malta (1668), on the basis of previously unpublished inquisitorial documents.
In this new article, Cloe Cavero unearths unpublished archival sources to reconstruct the Roman sojourn of Luis de Oviedo (ca. 1585-1624), one of the most significant non-aristocratic collectors in early seventeenth-century Spain.
This chapter discusses religious patronage practices in the reign of Philip III.
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Nine studies of early modern private chapels as multimedia “laboratories” for social and devotional display and for artistic invention and innovation in 16th- and 17th-century Rome.
This chapter analyzes early modern Spanish copies of Roman icons to understand the ways in which reproductions of sacred images acquired new identities.
In this contribution, Chiara Franceschini presents some of the newly discovered cases of images contested by the Roman Inquisition.
In this essay, Chiara Franceschini discusses the extremely imaginative series of miniatures of hell and the Last Things as well as the complex relations between text and image in the Livre de la Vigne, Ms. Douce 134 from the Bodleian Library (1460 circa).
Type of Publication: Online Article
Erin Giffin, “Conflicting Sources for 3D Replicas,” Thinking 3D Forum website, July 20, 2019.
In this article, Cloe Cavero de Carondelet examines the rare scene represented in a little-known drawing by the royal painter Eugenio Cajés.
Type of publication: Journal Article
Erin Giffin, “Détruire, reconstruire, redéfinir: la fragmentation volontaire de la Santa Casa de Loreto et ses altérations répliquées,” Perspective : actualité en histoire de l’art, themed publication: Détruire. Vol. 2018-2 (2018), p. 209-217.
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Chiara Franceschini, ‘Classifying Image Content in Visual Collections; A Selective History’, in The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography, ed. Colum Hourihane, Routledge, pp. 184-191.
Type of publication: Book
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“Da quando l’espressione limbus inferni, “l’orlo dell’inferno”, cominciò a essere usata dai teologi occidentali nel tardo XII secolo fino al 19 gennaio 2007, quando papa Benedetto XVI invitò i fedeli a “lasciar cadere l’ipotesi limbo”, sono trascorsi quasi mille anni. Oggi la vicenda del limbo sembra finita. Questo saggio, per la prima volta nella storia della cultura occidentale, racconta com’è nata e come si è sviluppata.
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