ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-5654
(1. March 2021):
“Pietro Paolo Drei’s Flower Mosaics Revealed in Print”.
In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 38
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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.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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EU Funded Grant Agreement Number: | 680192 |
EU Projects: | Horizon 2020 > ERC Grants > ERC Starting Grant > ERC Grant 680192: SACRIMA - The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe |
Form of publication: | 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 |
Faculties: | History and Art History > Department of Art History > Art History |
Subjects: | 200 Religion > 270 History of Christianity 700 Arts and recreation > 720 Architecture 700 Arts and recreation > 760 Graphic arts |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-75458-4 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 75458 |
Date Deposited: | 29. Mar 2021, 09:03 |
Last Modified: | 01. Oct 2021, 05:00 |