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Luke Wadding's Art Irish Franciscan Patronage In LUKE WADDING’S ART IRISH FRANCISCAN PATRONAGE IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROME GIOVAN BATTISTA FIDANZA 2016 Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 1 7/26/2016 11:27:14 AM Published in the United States © Franciscan Institute Publications St. Bonaventure University, 2016 ISBN 13:978-1-57659-401-8 eISBN 13:978-1-57659-402-5 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover design by Jill M. Smith Cover image: Carlo Maratti, Portrait of Luke Wadding, Rome, College of St. Isidore, Chapter hall, detail (Zeno Colantoni, Rome). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Fidanza, Giovan Battista, author. Title: Luke Wadding’s art : Irish Franciscan patronage in seventeenth-century Rome / Giovan Battista Fidanza. Description: St. Bonaventure, NY : Franciscan Institute Publications, 2016. Identifiers: LCCN 2016008031 | ISBN 9781576594018 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Wadding, Luke, 1588-1657--Art patronage. | Franciscans--Art patronage--Italy--Rome. | S. Isidoro (Church : Rome, Italy) | Franciscan architecture--Italy--Rome. | Franciscan art--Italy--Rome. | Rome (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc. Classification: LCC NA5620.S427 F53 2016 | DDC 726.509456/32--dc23 LC record va ailable at http://lccn.loc. gov/2016008031 Printed and bound in the United States of America. Franciscan Institute Publications makes every effort to use environmentally responsible suppliers and materials in the publishing of its books. This book is printed on acid free, recycled paper that is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified. It is printed with soy-based ink. Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 2 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM CONTENTS Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1. Who was Luke Wadding? 3 2. The Church of St. Isidore from 1625 to the 1630s: art and architecture 25 3. The Church of St. Isidore from 1645 to 1652: art and architecture 59 4. St. Joseph’s Chapel from 1652 to 1653 77 5. The Crucifixion Chapel from 1655 to 1657 117 6. An illuminated antiphonary and the etchings for Wadding’s books 143 7. The painted and engraved portraits of Wadding 155 Appendix 1 179 Appendix 2 183 Appendix 3 185 Appendix 4 195 Appendix 5 205 Appendix 6 211 Appendix 7 217 Appendix 8 219 Appendix 9 221 Appendix 10 223 Glossary of untranslatable Italian and Latin words 225 Bibliography 227 Index 243 iii Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 3 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 4 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM NOTE The churches and other monuments when not otherwise indicated, are to be considered located in Rome. ACRONYMS FOR CITED ARCHIVES ACDF = Archivio della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede (Archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith). ACSI = Archivio del Collegio di Sant’Isidoro, Roma (Archives of St. Isidore’s College, Rome). ASR = Archivio di Stato di Roma (State Archives of Rome). ASSPSAE = Archivio Soprintendenza SPSAE e Polo Museale della Città di Roma (Archives of Monuments and Fine Arts Office of Rome). ASV = Archivio Segreto Vaticano (Vatican Secret Archives). ASVR = Archivio Storico del Vicariato di Roma (Historical Archives of Vicariate of Rome). BAV = Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (Vatican Library). NOTE ON THE ARCHIVES OF ST. ISIDORE’S COLLEGE, ROME Not all of the original documents are still kept at the archives. Several archival collections formerly housed at St. Isidore’s College can be currently found at the Archives of University College, Dublin, where not all of the material regarding St. Isidore’s College is available for consultation. The Archives of St. Isidore’s College (ACSI) now have digitized versions of some files; the archival references for these digitized documents begin in the following way: ACSI, Virtual University College Dublin [...]. v Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 5 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 6 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The first person to suggest that I should undertake research into Luke Wadding’s artistic involvements, in 2010, was the great Franciscan historian Fr. Cesare Cenci OFM (1925-2010), who spent his final years living at the College of St. Isidore in Rome. He assured me that the topic was yet to be investigated and it would be possible to make many new discoveries. Now, at the end of my work, I can say that he was right. As well as fruitful, this research has been interesting and, above all, absorbing. I found Wadding’s name, in its Italian form “Luca Vadingo,” in many archival documents. The most important of these were the ledgers of the Monte di Pietà bank in Rome, where the Irish friar was the account holder of large deposits. These ledgers are today kept in the “Galla Placidia” department of the State Archives of Rome, where I spent many days during the scorching summer of 2014. That being said, for this, one of the principle discoveries of my entire research, I would like to thank Maria Temide Bergamaschi, the person in charge of this department, and her team, Maddalena Mele, Antonio Orlandelli and Luca Saletti. All of these people made themselves and their skills available to me in assisting with the none too easy task of going through the ledgers. Throughout the course of my research, I have been surrounded with advice and suggestions from several friends and colleagues. I would like to thank them all here: Adriano Amendola, Angela Baldanza, Laura Bartoni, Matteo Binasco, Lynda Britten, Celeste Cardinali, Marco Cardinali, Patrizia Cavazzini, Gaetano Curzi, Vaima Gelli, Maria Barbara Guerrieri Borsoi, Francesca Cappelletti, Zeno Colantoni, Fr. Bernardo Commodi OFM Conv, Fr. Luigi Giacometti OFM, Loredana Lorizzo, Enrica Lozzi, Francesco F. Mancini, Jacopo Manna, Francesca Manzari, Nicoletta Marconi, Patrick James O’Kelley, Tomaso Montanari, Giuseppe Pellegrini, Francesco Petrucci, Chiara Scionti, Guendalina Serafinelli, Piera Giovanna Tordella, Alessandro Tomei, Alessandra Tosti, Carmine Varasano. I would like to express my special thanks to Allegra De Lorenzo for her assistance in obtaining the images for this book. For their support and encouragement, above all I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the father guardian and the archivists of the Irish Franciscan College of St. Isidore in Rome: Fr. Mícheál MacCraith OFM, Donatella Bellardini and Claudia Costacurta. This book is dedicated to my mother, Maura and Giovanni... they know why. Rome, 15 July 2015. vii Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 7 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM Luke Waddings Art Matters 07.19.2016.indd 8 7/26/2016 11:27:15 AM INTRODUCTION The Irish Franciscan Recollect Luke Wadding (Waterford, 1588 - Rome, 1657) was a very significant figure in several fields. Above all, he is famous for his highly important contribution to Franciscan history, having written the first eight volumes ofAnnales Minorum, the impressive work devoted to the history of the three Franciscan orders. In addition, he was a great theologian and played a prominent role in the ecclesiastical politics of Rome in the 1600s. Wadding was also a strenuous defender of the Irish cause at a period when his native land was under English occupation and the Roman Catholic church faced persecution. At the age of fifteen, Wadding left Ireland for Portugal and never returned to his homeland. In 1618 Wadding moved to Rome, where he remained for the rest of his life. Every area of the life of this indefatigable Franciscan friar was characterized by his effective decision-making abilities; he was a powerful man, destined to plan and to lead. Undoubtedly he had great charisma; even today, his name arouses great historical, cultural and religious interest, and not only among the Irish people. Much has been written about him since the period immediately following his death. However, there were still less well-known aspects of his life that warranted further investigation, for example, his role in commissioning works of art and architecture. This role is chiefly developed within the context of the College and the Church of St. Isidore in Rome. The College was founded by the Irish chronicler in 1625, with the assistance of Pope Urban VIII, whom he was very close to. He also had a close relationship with the Pope’s two nephews, the cardinals Francesco and Antonio Barberini. From 1625, one of the most important undertakings which Wadding carried forward throughout his life was the continuation of the building and decorative works of the church attached to the College. The construction of the church and the College of St. Isidore had been started by the Spanish Discalced Franciscans in 1622. They were replaced in 1625 by the Franciscan Irish Recollects, led in Rome by Luke Wadding. These building and artistic works were commissioned directly by Wadding, who, over a period of thirty-two years, managed a substantial quantity of money donated by various benefactors. However, Wadding’s relationship with the artists was not just confined to the works for his church. In fact, there are etchings which he commissioned for the title pages of some of his books on theology and history, and, more importantly, three portraits of Wadding painted by Carlo Maratti. Shortly afterwards, etchings were made from these portraits, allowing the sharp and severe image of Wadding to be spread throughout Europe. In this research I have thoroughly investigated these topics, focusing on the most significant new information to emerge from an in-depth reading of the existing literature and from the discovery of previously unpublished archival documents, which have often been of great interest. My most important source has been the biography of Wadding written by his nephew, Francis Harold, and published in 1662, which, strangely, has been largely overlooked by art historians until now.
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