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Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance) Includes Bibliographical References and Index ARTISTIC CENTERS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ROME S edited by Marcia B. Hall Temple University Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press West th Street, New York, ‒, www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/ © Cambridge University Press This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published Printed in Hong Kong A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Rome / edited by Marcia B. Hall p. cm. – (Artistic centers of the Italian Renaissance) Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (alk. paper) . Art, Italian – Italy – Rome. Art, Renaissance – Italy – Rome. Popes – Art patronage. I. Hall, Marcia B. II. Series . ´.´–dc - ---- hardback - --- hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of s for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this book and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. CONTENTS S List of Illustrations page ix Series Editor’s Preface xvii Acknowledgments xix List of Contributors xxi 1 cultural introduction to renaissance rome Ingrid D. Rowland 2 introduction: the art history of renaissance rome Marcia B. Hall 3 the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Meredith J. Gill 4 the high renaissance, 1503–1534 Marcia B. Hall 5 PHOENIX ROMANUS: rome, 1534–1565 Clare Robertson 6 the counter-reformation and the end of the century Steven F.Ostrow Bibliography Index vii ILLUSTRATIONS S color plates (before p. 1 and following p. 320) Raphael and workshop, Fall of Jericho, loggia of Pope Leo X, Vatican Master Cosmatus, Sancta Sanctorum, Lateran, Raphael, Transfiguration, detail, Pinacoteca, Rome Vatican Pietro Cavallini, Last Judgment, Santa Cecilia Giorgio Vasari, Paul III Inspecting New Saint in Trastevere, Rome Peter’s, Sala dei Cento Giorni, Palazzo della Arnolfo di Cambio, tomb of Boniface VIII, Cancelleria Chapel of Boniface IV,Old Saint Peter’s Perino del Vaga, Sala Paolina (Saint Michael Masolino, Saint Catherine Debates the Scholars wall), Castel Sant’Angelo of Alexandria, Chapel of the Sacrament, San Francesco Salviati, Visitation of Mary and Clemente Elizabeth, Oratorio di San Giovanni Melozzo da Forlì, Sixtus IV and His Nephews, Decollato Vatican Library (Pinacoteca,Vatican) Daniele da Volterra, Assumption of the Virgin, Sandro Botticelli, The Punishment of Korah, Santa Trinità dei Monti Sistine Chapel,Vatican palace Bartolomeo Ammanati and Giorgio Vasari, Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, tomb of nymphaeum,Villa Giulia Sixtus IV,Saint Peter’s (formerly Chapel Pirro Ligorio, exterior, Casino of Pius IV of the Choir) Domenico Fontana et al., Cappella Sistina, Pinturicchio, Legend of Saint Catherine, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Sala dei Santi, Borgia Apartments, Vatican Salone Sistino,Vatican Library,Vatican palace Giuseppe Valeriano and Scipione Pulzone, Michelangelo, Temptation and Expulsion of Assumption of the Virgin, Chapel of the Adam and Eve, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Madonna della Strada, Il Gesù, Rome Michelangelo, Asa, from Ancestors of Christ, Jacopo Zucchi, fresco decorations, Galleria, lunette, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palazzo Rucellai–Ruspoli, Rome Raphael, Parnassus, Stanza della Segnatura, Christofano Roncalli, mosaic decorations, Vatican Cappella Clementina, Saint Peter’s,Vatican Ripanda, Peace Treaty between the Romans and Giovanni and Cherubino Alberti, frescoes, the Carthaginians, Room of the Punic Wars, Sala Clementina,Vatican palace, Vatican Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome Nave Clementina, San Giovanni in Laterano, Raphael, Liberation of Saint Peter, Stanza Rome d’Eliodoro, Vatican Giuseppe Cesari and Giovanni Alberti, vault Raphael, Chigi Chapel, Santa Maria del frescoes, including Ascension of Christ, Olgiati Popolo, Rome Chapel, Santa Prassede, Rome Raphael and workshop, Abraham and Annibale Carracci, vault frescoes, Galleria, Melchisedek, loggia of Pope Leo X, Vatican Palazzo Farnese, Rome ix x ILLUSTRATIONS figures Masolino, Founding of Santa Maria Maggiore, Colonna altarpiece, Santa Maria Maggiore, Nicholas III between Saints Peter and Rome (Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Paul, Sancta Sanctorum, Scala Santa, Capodimonte, Naples) Rome page Dome, oratory, Riofreddo Jacopo Torriti, Coronation of the Virgin, Masolino, Crucifixion, Chapel of the apse, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Sacrament, San Clemente, Rome Filippo Rusuti and workshop, Christ Donatello[?], tomb of Martin V,San Enthroned, west facade, Santa Maria Giovanni in Laterano, Rome Maggiore, Rome Donatello,Tabernacle of the Sacrament Pietro Cavallini, Annunciation (from Life of (originally Old Saint Peter’s), Saint Peter’s the Virgin), Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome Filarete, Porta Argentea (originally Old Cimabue, view of Rome, Saint Mark the Saint Peter’s), Saint Peter’s Evangelist, detail, vault, Upper Church, San Filarete, Martyrdoms of Saints Peter and Paul, Francesco,Assisi Porta Argentea (originally Old Saint Cimabue, Crucifixion, south transept, Upper Peter’s), Saint Peter’s Church, San Francesco,Assisi Filarete, Self-Portrait with Workshop, Porta Assisi Master, Funeral and Canonization of Argentea (originally Old Saint Peter’s), Saint Francis, Upper Church, San Francesco, Saint Peter’s Assisi Benozzo Gozzoli, view of Rome, Assisi Master, Institution of the Crib at Greccio, Augustine’s Departure from Rome to Milan, Upper Church, San Francesco,Assisi apse, Sant’Agostino, San Gimignano Assisi Master, Miracle of the Spring, Upper Fra Angelico, Ordination of Saint Stephen and Church, San Francesco,Assisi Saint Stephen Distributing Alms, Chapel of Assisi Master, Miracle of the Crucifix, Upper Nicholas V,Vatican palace,Vatican Church, San Francesco,Assisi Fra Angelico, Saint Lawrence Distributing Assisi Master, Dream of Innocent III, Upper Alms, Chapel of Nicholas V,Vatican palace Church, San Francesco,Assisi Martin van Heemskerck, view of Assisi Master, Saint Francis Preaching before Benediction Loggia, Old Saint Peter’s Honorius III, Upper Church, San Paolo Romano, Saint Paul, formerly for the Francesco,Assisi stairway of the Benediction Loggia, Old Apse mosaic, Old Saint Peter’s (Grimaldi, Saint Peter’s (now Ponte Sant’Angelo) Instrumenta autentica, fol. ) Paolo Romano, reliquary tabernacle for the Arnolfo di Cambio and workshop, head of Saint Andrew, Old Saint Peter’s ciborium, Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, (Grimaldi, Instrumenta autentica) Rome Mino da Fiesole, ciborium, Santa Maria Giotto, Stefaneschi altarpiece (originally Maggiore, Rome (Paolo de Angelis Old Saint Peter’s), Pinacoteca,Vatican []) Simone Martini, Redeemer, Notre-Dame Mino da Fiesole, Assumption of the Virgin, des Doms,Avignon ciborium, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Borromini, drawing of the north nave wall Mino da Fiesole, Miracle of the Snow, (after Gentile da Fabriano and Pisanello), ciborium, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome Mino da Fiesole, Jerome Removing a Thorn Masolino, Assumption of the Virgin, Colonna from the Lion’s Paw, altar of Saint Jerome, altarpiece, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Santa Maria Maggiore (Museo e Gallerie Nazionale di Giacomo da Pietrasanta, facade, Capodimonte, Naples) Sant’Agostino, Rome ILLUSTRATIONS xi Interior, nave, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Pietro Perugino, Giving of the Keys to Saint Rome Peter, Sistine Chapel,Vatican Interior, nave, Sant’Agostino, Rome Pietro Perugino, drawing of Assumption of Antoniazzo Romano, Annunciation, Chapel the Virgin of the Annunciation, Santa Maria sopra Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo, tomb of Minerva, Rome Innocent VIII, Saint Peter’s Isaia da Pisa, tomb of Santa Monica, Chapel Martin van Heemskerck, view of Vatican of Saint Monica, Sant’Agostino, Rome including Belvedere Tomb of Maddalena Orsini, San Salvatore Donato Bramante, cloister, Santa Maria in Lauro, Rome della Pace, Rome Isaia da Pisa, tomb of Eugenius IV,San Filippino Lippi, Assumption and Salvatore in Lauro, Rome Annunciation, Carafa Chapel, Santa Maria Portico, San Marco, Rome sopra Minerva, Rome Francesco del Borgo, portico, Palazzetto Pinturicchio, Story of Isis and Osiris, vault, Venezia (Palazzo Venezia), Rome Sala dei Santi, Borgia Apartments,Vatican Baccio Pontelli, Sant’Aurea, Ostia palace,Vatican Baccio Pontelli[?], Palazzo della Cancelleria, Michelangelo, Bacchus (Museo Nazionale Rome del Bargello, Florence) Andrea Bregno, tomb of Cardinal Louis Michelangelo, Pietà (originally Old Saint d’Albret, Santa Maria in Aracoeli, Rome Peter’s), Saint Peter’s Mino da Fiesole, Last Judgment, tomb of Pinturicchio, Piccolomini Library, Paul II (originally Old Saint Peter’s), Saint cathedral, Siena Peter’s Andrea Bregno, Piccolomini tomb, Andrea Bregno and workshop with cathedral, Siena Giovanni Dalmata, tomb of Bartolomeo Donato Bramante,Tempietto, San Pietro Roverella, detail, San Clemente in Montorio, Rome Andrea Bregno and workshop, tomb of G. A. Dosio, Cortile del Belvedere, Pietro Riario, Ss. Apostoli Vatican Mino da Fiesole and workshop, tomb of Michelangelo, tomb of Pope Julius II, Cardinal Jacopo Ammanati Piccolomini, San Pietro in Vincoli,Rome Sant’Agostino, Rome (now
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