Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century

Richardson, Carol M.

doi:10.1163/ej.9789004171831.i-528

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“…In orbit around the curia were the smaller courtly worlds of its cardinals. The “families” of these princes of the church also played a key role in Rome's rebirth and in the patronage of humanists (Richardson, ). The apex came in the golden age of the Renaissance papacy.…”

Section: The Renaissance and Romementioning

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Medieval and Renaissance Rome: Mending the divide

Palmer¹

2017

History Compass

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Historians of late medieval and renaissance Italy have long seen the fourteenth century as a dramatic period of upheaval and transformation. Yet despite the fact that Rome has long fascinated scholars, the city's fourteenth‐century history is often given short shrift. Only the dazzling figure of Cola di Rienzo consistently draws scholarly attention, resulting in his somewhat exaggerated role in Roman political history. With important exceptions, Anglophone scholars primarily interested in the Italian Renaissance have traditionally begun their histories in the mid‐fifteenth century with the result that fourteenth‐century Rome is largely passed over. The Avignon Papacy, 1309–1377, is seen as a period of abandonment and ruin. The situation is different among scholars, mostly Continental, whose study of fourteenth‐century Rome's social and economic history has been appearing over the last few decades. This historiography, which has largely operated discretely from the Anglophone tradition, has conclusively demonstrated that late medieval Rome must be considered alongside Italy's city communes. This has transformative implications for Roman historiography. Recent work on Rome's earlier medieval history, as well as on the history and character of the Italian communes, suggests that now more than ever there is much to be gained by bringing these discrete strands of scholarship on late medieval Rome to bear on one another.

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Section: The Renaissance and Romementioning

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Medieval and Renaissance Rome: Mending the divide

Palmer¹

2017

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“…Through the commission of artworks and other material donations, the cardinals fulfilled their duties and documented their own presence at the papal court. 6 Broadly, which church a cardinal received reflected circumstances closely connected with his political position. The most important cardinals were those men appointed cardinal-bishops to one of the six Cathedral Churches: Ostia, Porto, Albano, Sabina, Palestrina and Frascati.…”

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“…For instance, any artistic intervention or material endowment commissioned by the cardinal would be instrumental for increasing as much his own magnificence as the status of the church and, by extension, also that of its clergy. 62 In the case of Spanish cardinals, titular churches provided them with the inestimable opportunity of patronage within a Roman sacred space, where -in principlethey did not possess family palaces or any other spaces of representation. As Cardinal Sandoval was not expected to ever travel to Rome, the actions required for gaining any symbolic or material profits were to be necessarily performed by his agents.…”

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Possessing Rome ‘in absentia’: The Titular Churches of the Spanish Monarchy in the Early Seventeenth Century

Carondelet

2016

Royal Studies Journal

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“…89 As it was customary to have an effigy's feet pointing towards the altar, it seems likely that the tomb was located against the south wall of the chapel. 90 Sibylle Nerger considered the figure an early fifteenth-century work of high quality. 91 It is not known who made it.…”

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Saint Catherine of Siena's Tomb and Its Place in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome: Narration, Translation and Veneration

Lloyd¹

2015

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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By examining the historical narratives of Saint Catherine of Siena's death and burial this paper sheds new light on the liturgical layout of the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome c. 1380. Since then Saint Catherine's remains have been translated five times, and at each translation, the form and decoration of her sepulchre has changed, showing how different aspects of her life were commemorated at each renewal of her tomb. These transformations are examined in the light of what survives today and of other literary documentation. Particular attention is given to the way Catherine was represented before and after her canonization in 1461. This explains why a relief attributed to Donatello that has been associated with her tomb may date c. 1430, while a figure of the saint by an artist close to Isaia of Pisa was made c. 1466. The paper also examines the consequences of placing the tomb under the altar of the Capranica chapel in 1579, and of moving the monument under the high altar of the church in 1855, when Santa Maria sopra Minerva was restored according to neo-Gothic principles. Each phase of her tomb shows how Catherine has been venerated from 1380 until the present.

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Reclaiming Rome: Cardinals in the Fifteenth Century

Cited by 40 publications

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Medieval and Renaissance Rome: Mending the divide

Medieval and Renaissance Rome: Mending the divide

Possessing Rome ‘in absentia’: The Titular Churches of the Spanish Monarchy in the Early Seventeenth Century

Saint Catherine of Siena's Tomb and Its Place in Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome: Narration, Translation and Veneration

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