ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-5654
(December 2020):
Giovanni Battista Braccelli’s Etched Devotions before the Vatican Bronze Saint Peter.
In: I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, Vol. 23, No. 2: pp. 341-374
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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.
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: | Giovanni Battista Braccelli, Bronze Saint Peter, New Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, Vatican, Votives, Touch, Seventeenth-century, Etching, Print |
Faculties: | History and Art History > Department of Art History > Art History |
Subjects: | 200 Religion > 240 Christian practice and observance 700 Arts and recreation > 720 Architecture 700 Arts and recreation > 730 Sculpture, ceramics and metalwork 700 Arts and recreation > 760 Graphic arts |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-75466-8 |
ISSN: | 0393-5949 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 75466 |
Date Deposited: | 01. Apr 2021, 15:52 |
Last Modified: | 01. Apr 2021, 15:52 |