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Article
Avignon as 'nova Roma'
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 5–15
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Bolgia, Claudia (Bolgia, Claudia)
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1. Chamber of the Stag, Papal Palace, Avignon. 1343. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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11. Detail of the Stefaneschi polyptych, showing the Crucifixion of St Peter, by Giotto. c.1320. Tempera on panel. (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican City; Bridgeman Images).
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13. Crucifixion of St Peter, copy of a detail in the lost fresco cycle in the atrium of Old St Peter’s, Rome (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS A64ter (Grimaldi Album), fol. 39).
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14. Duke Stephen in Rome, imploring St Peter to absolve his sins, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene M, south wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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15. Detail of Fig.14, showing Stephen, Duke of south-west France, receiving absolution from St Peter.
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16. Vault of the chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1346–48. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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17. Alpinianus cures the sick by imposing on them the sudarium of St Martial, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene U, south wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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18. Detail of Fig.17, showing the imposition of the sudarium.
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2. Detail of the ceiling of the Chamber of the Stag, showing the she-wolf with her twins and the hen with her chicks. 1343. (Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Fabrice Lepeltier).
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4. Section of the Tower of the Pope and Garderobe Tower, Papal Palace, Avignon.
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5. Ground plan of the Papal Palace, Avignon.
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6. Christ ordering St Peter to send St Martial to preach in Gaul and St Peter communicating Christ’s will to Martial and his disciples, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene D, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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7. Martial receives the staff from St Peter and Resurrection of Austriclianus, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene C, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
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8. Chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. (Photograph Domenico Ventura).
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9. Christ showing to St Martial in a vision the martyrdom of St Peter and St Paul in Rome, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene P, lunette, west wall, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; photograph Domenico Ventura).
Western art unattributed:
10. Crucifixion of St Peter. c.1277–80. Fresco. (Sancta Sanctorum, Rome).
Western art unattributed:
12. Rooster. Italian, 9th–12th century. Gilded bronze. (Museo Storico- Artistico del Tesoro di S. Pietro, Vatican City).
Western art unattributed:
3. Stone relief of the she-wolf with her twins, Maria Saal Cathedral. (Wikimedia Commons).
Article
Matteo Giovannetti, the painter and his work: an assessment in the light of recent restorations
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 54–61
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Vingtain, Dominique (Vingtain, Dominique)
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2. St Martial, detail of a fresco by Matteo Giovannetti before and after restoration. 1344–45. Fresco. (Scene D, vault, chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon; Consortio Arké).
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4. Vault of the chapel of St Martial, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1344–45. (Photograph Domenico Venturi).
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5. Vault of the chapel of St John, Papal Palace, Avignon, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1346–48. (Photograph Domenico Venturi).
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6. Detail of The beheading of John the Baptist, by Matteo Giovannetti. 1355. Fresco. (Chapel of St John, Chartreuse, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon; Bildarchiv Monheim GmbH; Alamy Stock Photo).
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7. Details of the face of St Martial at different stages of his life as depicted in the Papal Palace, Avignon. (© Dominique Vingtain; photographs Domenico Ventura).
Western art unattributed:
1. Section of the Tower of the Pope and Garderobe Tower, Papal Palace, Avignon.
Western art unattributed:
3. Ground plan of the Papal Palace, Avignon.
Article
Urban VIII and the Barberini
07/2023 | 1444 | 165
Pages: 772–777
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Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
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L’immagine sovrana: Urbano VIII e i Barberini, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 18th May–30th July 2023. | :
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1. Maffeo Barberini, by Caravaggio. c.1595. Oil on canvas, 124 by 90 cm. (Private collection; exh. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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2. Urban VIII visits the Gesù, Rome, to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Jesuit order, by Andrea Sacchi with Filippo Gagliardi and Jan Miel. 1642. Oil on canvas, 321 by 248 cm. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; courtesy the Ministero Beni e Attività Culturali e del Turismo; Scala Archives).
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3. Carlo Barberini, by Francesco Mochi. c.1630. Bronze, height 58 cm. (Private collection; exh. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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4. St Sebastian thrown into the Cloaca Maxima, by Ludovico Carracci. 1612. Oil on canvas, 163.5 by 232.4 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; exh. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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5. Installation view of L’immagine sovrana: Urbano VIII e I Barberini at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 2023, showing the tapestries hung in the Salone. (Photograph Alberto Novelli).
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6. Installation view of L’immagine sovrana: Urbano VIII e I Barberini at Palazzo Barberini, Rome, showing Urban VIII, by Gianlorenzo Bernini. 1632–33. Marble, height 103 cm. with pedestal. (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
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7. Marc’Antonio Pasqualini crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi. 1642. Oil on canvas, 243.8 by 194.3 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, exh. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome).
Book Review
Il Mobile a Roma dal Rinascimento al Barocco
01/2023 | 1438 | 165
Pages: 95-96
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Jervis, Simon (Jervis, Simon; J., S.; J., S. S.)
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Il Mobile a Roma dal Rinascimento al Barocco By Alvar González-Palacios. 507 pp. incl. 253 col. + 126 b. & w. ills. (Ugo Bozzi Editore, Rome, 2022), €33. ISBN 978–88–7003–067–9. | :
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4. Cabinet by Giacomo Herman. 1669–78, on an early 18th-century giltwood console table. Ebony veneer, mounted with lapis lazuli, jasper, gilt bronze and 14 gouache miniature paintings depicting views of Rome, and incorporating a clock by Giovanni Wenderlino Hessler and a virginal by Giovanni Battista Mambriani, dated 1676, 284 by 172 by 72.5 cm. (Private collection).
Book Review
Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680–880
01/2022 | 1426 | 164
Pages: 84-85
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Reviewer:
Hamburger, Jeffrey (Hamburger, Jeffrey)
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Iconophilia: Politics, Religion, Preaching, and the Use of Images in Rome, c.680–880 By Francesca Dell’Acqua. 444 pp. incl. 32 col. + 103 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2020), £130. ISBN 978–0–415–79372–8. | :
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2. Theotokos and Pope Paschal I, detail from the apse, S. Maria in Domnica, Rome. 818–19. Mosaic. (Photograph Francesca Dell’Acqua).
Article
Caravaggio in exile: new documents
01/2021 | 1414 | 163
Pages: 34-39
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Cocconi, Giulia (Cocconi, Giulia)
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1. Detail of David and Goliath, by Caravaggio, showing the head of Goliath, believed to be a self-portrait of the artist. c.1609–10. Oil on canvas, 125 by 101 cm. (Galleria Borghese, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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2. Rest on the flight into Egypt, by Caravaggio. 1597. Oil on canvas, 135.5 by 166.5 cm. (Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome; Bridgeman Images).
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3. The choice of Hercules, by Annibale Carracci. 1596. Oil on canvas, 167 by 237 cm. (Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Naples; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Camillo Rusconi: Ein Bildhauer des Spätbarock in Rom. By Frank Martin
04/2020 | 1405 | 162
Pages: 359-360
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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Camillo Rusconi: Ein Bildhauer des Sp tbarock in Rom By Frank Martin. 400 pp. incl. 255 b. & w. ills. (Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin and Munich, 2019),  75. ISBN 978–3–422–07485–9. | :
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4. St Andrew, by Camillo Rusconi. 1708–09. Marble, height 425 cm. (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Rome; courtesy the author).
Book Review
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome. By Pamela O. Long
03/2020 | 1404 | 162
Pages: 261-263
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Connors, Joseph (Connors, Joseph)
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Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome By Pamela O. Long. 368 pp. incl. 73 b. & w. ills. (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018),  34. ISBN 978–0–226–54379–6. | :
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5. Lowering of the Vatican obelisk, by Natale Bonifacio, from Domenico Fontana’s Della trasportatione dell’obelisco Vaticano, Rome 1590, pl.18. Engraving, 39.2 by 24.5 cm. (Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge MA).
Book Review
A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492–1692. Edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 76-77
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Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)
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A Companion to Early Modern Rome 1492–1692 Edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch and Simon Ditchfield. 653 pp. incl. 29 col. + 90 b. & w. ills. (Brill, Leiden, 2019), £155. ISBN 978–90–04–39195–6. | :
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3. Corpus Christi procession in St Peter’s Square at the time of Pope Innocent X. c.1646. Oil on canvas, 101.5 by 86.5 cm. (Palazzo Braschi, Rome).
Book Review
Die textilen Geschenke Papst Bonifaz’ VIII. (1294–1303) an die Kathedrale von Anagni: Päpstliche Paramente des späten Mittelalters als Medien der Repräsentation, Gaben und Erinnerungsträger. By Christiane Elster
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 603-604
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Monnas, Lisa (Monnas, Lisa)
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2. Detail of a cope given by Boniface VIII to Anagni Cathedral. Thirteenth century. Gold embroidery (opus cyprense) on red samite. (Museo della Cattedrale di Anagni).
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