“Pietro Paolo Drei’s Flower Mosaics Revealed in Print”

Giffin, Erin (1. März 2021): “Pietro Paolo Drei’s Flower Mosaics Revealed in Print”. In: Print Quarterly, Bd. 38

Abstract

Uninterpreted inscriptions incised across a pair of etchings by the Flemish artist Pieter de Bailliu reveal an ephemeral, decorative tradition once practiced in the heart of Rome. These prints, together with a third by de Bailliu, shed light on the ephemeral flower mosaics from which the artist worked. This paper revises preconceived notions regarding the little-understood early modern decorative tradition and the artistic oeuvre of Benedetto and Pietro Paolo Drei. De Bailliu’s prints reveal the large-scale ephemera once decorating the seventeenth-century floors of new Saint Peter’s Basilica, and the debt modern scholarship owes to prints that reconstruct lost, altered, or striped early modern interiors.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: 680192
• EU-Projekte: Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Starting Grant > ERC Grant 680192: SACRIMA - The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe
• Publikationsform: Publisher's Version
• Keywords: Pietro Paolo Drei, Benedetto Drei, Pieter de Bailliu, flower mosaics, Arcimboldo, Saint Peter's Basilica, ephemera, cult practice, bronze Saint Peter statue, architecture
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Department Kunstwissenschaften > Kunstgeschichte
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 270 Geschichte des Christentums ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 720 Architektur ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 760 Grafik
• Sprache: Englisch