Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome - those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church - used the arts to cultivate more than splendid social status.

Summary

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to cultivate more than splendid social status.

Product details

• Authors: Karen J. Lloyd, Lloyd Karen J.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032117072
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211707-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, Rome, ART / European, Italy, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, ART / History / European / Renaissance