Patronage and Devotion

A Focus on Six Roman Baroque Paintings

Giovan Battista Fidanza, Guendalina Serafinelli

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English

Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
01 May 2022

Art & design styles: Baroque; Painting & paintings; Religious subjects depicted in art

New approaches to the study of the complex processes involved in the making of a work of art.

Patronage and Devotion accompanies an exhibition of works by prominent Baroque artists at the Villa Mondragone, a Renaissance papal villa in the countryside of Rome. The highlight of the catalog and exhibition is a group of masterpieces by seven prominent artists of the seventeenth century: five altarpieces by Carlo Saraceni, Valentin de Boulogne, Andrea Sacchi, Andrea Camassei, and Carlo Maratti, and one easel painting by Guido Reni commissioned for private devotion. Most of the paintings will be on public view for the first time.

With new research, remarkable photographs, and details of diagnostic analyses of the altarpieces, this publication offers a fresh look at sacred imagery and its uses through selected studies related to seventeenth-century Roman visual culture. By reconstructing the religious and social dynamics of artistic patronage and the context of worship and devotion in which these paintings were executed - fully documented by primary sources - the volume explores the visual impact of these works on the viewers.

AUTHORS: Giovan Battista Fidanza is professor of early modern art history at Tor Vergata University of Rome.

Guendalina Serafinelli teaches at the Catholic University of America Rome Center and is advisor to the American Academy in Rome.

35 colour illustrations

By: Giovan Battista Fidanza, Guendalina Serafinelli
Imprint: Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 215mm,
ISBN: 9781913645144
ISBN 10: 1913645142
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 01 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Giovan Battista Fidanza is Professor of Early Modern Art History at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He is Editor-in-chief of Rivista d’Arte (Leo S. Olschki, Florence). Guendalina Serafinelli teaches at the Catholic University of America, Rome Center and is Advisor to the American Academy in Rome.

Reviews for Patronage and Devotion: A Focus on Six Roman Baroque Paintings

"""Created to accompany a small exhibition at the Villa Mondragone, a papal villa near Rome, this catalogue includes two extended essays on patronage and iconography. [...] Religious context is front and center. The audience for this book is limited to specialists interested in these painters and/or 17th-century Catholic patronage.""-- ""Choice"""