Giovanni Battista Braccelli’s Etched Devotions before the Vatican Bronze Saint Peter

Giffin, Erin (Dezember 2020): Giovanni Battista Braccelli’s Etched Devotions before the Vatican Bronze Saint Peter. In: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Bd. 23, Nr. 2: S. 341-374

Abstract

An etching by the painter and engraver Giovanni Battista Braccelli (ca. 1584-1650) marks the point of departure for an exploration of the bronze cult statue located today inside Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, where it has acted as a devotional locus for centuries. Braccelli’s print reveals the ephemeral gifts that once adorned the sculpture’s flanking pilasters of new Saint Peter’s Basilica, and an episode of early modern interaction with the sculpted image. By uniting print and sculptural studies with the history of lay religious practice, this evaluation explores the impetus behind Braccelli’s representation of the statue and its new context. The artist’s representation showcases an object held in great esteem by the local and pilgrimaging communities and opens a window onto the lost ephemera revolving around this central cult locus, demonstrating how the bronze sculpture effectively mediated the new basilica for the early modern viewer.

• 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: Giovanni Battista Braccelli, Bronze Saint Peter, New Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Vatican, Votives, Touch, Seventeenth-century, Etching, Print
• Fakultät: Geschichts- und Kunstwissenschaften > Department Kunstwissenschaften > Kunstgeschichte
• Themengebiete: 200 Religion > 240 Christliche Erfahrung, christliches Leben ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 720 Architektur ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 730 Bildhauerkunst, Keramik, Metallkunst ; 700 Künste und Unterhaltung > 760 Grafik
• ISSN: 0393-5949
• Sprache: Englisch