Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1032117079 | 279 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
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.