Abstract / the Mid-Fourteenth-Century Papal Palace in Avignon Built By
/Abstract / The mid-fourteenth-century papal palace before them; they include impressive scenic land- in Avignon built by Benedict xii and Clement vi in- scapes. Indeed, these frescoes seem to widen the cluded several chapels intended to replace churches small chapels and to open their walls. Giovanetti in Rome that were important for papal processions. therefore must be regarded as an important pioneer Two of these chapels adjacent to the great assembly in illusionistic painting. halls have preserved their original fresco paint- ings. One chapel is dedicated to St Martial, a pro- / Keywords/ Wall-Painting, Illusionism, Popes, Tre- vincial saint who was believed to be a follower of cento, Landscape Representations, Architecture St Peter and a contemporary of the apostles. Held Representations, Perspective to have Christianized Aquitania, Martial was an ideal prefiguration for the popes in Avignon. The / Stichwörter/ Wandmalerei, Illusionismus, Päpste, other chapel was dedicated to St John the Baptist Trecento, Landschaftsdarstellung, Architekturdar- and St John the Evangelist and thus supplanted the stellung, Perspektive importance of Rome’s St John Lateran. The painter of the surviving frescoes, Matteo Giovanetti, -de Dieter Blume picted complex architecture in perspective con- Kunsthistorisches Seminar struction and developed fictitious rooms and Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena places that are more illusionistic than any pictures dieter.blume@uni-jena-de 74 Rom im Exil – Die fiktiven Räume des Matteo Giovanetti in Avignon Dieter Blume Rom ist der Mittelpunkt der Welt, Zentrum der neuen, ungleich größer dimensionierten Kapellen- Christenheit, Wirkungs- und Grabstätte der Apo- raum, den er dem Apostel Petrus weihte und an den stelfürsten Petrus und Paulus, Heimstatt zahlloser sich auch eine Benediktionsloggia anschloss.
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