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“Seldom does a collection of art history essays leave readers yearning for a second volume…”<\/em>—Barbara Wisch, Renaissance Quarterly<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Roman church interiors throughout the Early Modern age were endowed with rich historical and visual significance. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in anticipation of and following the Council of Trent, and in response to the expansion of the Roman Curia, the chapel became a singular arena in which wealthy and powerful Roman families, as well as middle-class citizens, had the opportunity to demonstrate their status and role in Roman society. In most cases the chapels were conceived not as isolated spaces, but as part of a more complex system, which involved the nave and the other chapels within the church, in a dialogue among the arts and the patrons of those other spaces. This volume explores this historical and artistic phenomenon through a number of examples involving the patronage of prominent Roman families such as the Chigis, Spadas, Caetanis, Cybos and important artists and architects such as Federico Zuccari, Giacomo della Porta, Carlo Maderno, Alessandro Algardi, Pietro da Cortona, Carlo Maratta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New discoveries on the patronage and art of several important chapels in Roman churches, exploring thie historical and artistic phenomenon through a number of examples.
9 Chapels: An Introduction
\nChiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini
\n16 Map of the Churches
\n18 The Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello:
\nFarnesian Devotion, Antiquarian Taste, and Municipal Pride
\nPatrizia Tosini
\n40 Between all’Antica and Acheiropoieton:
\nThe Cappella Gregoriana in the Ekphrases
\nof Lorenzo Frizolio (1582) and Ascanio Valentino (1583)
\nFabio Barry
\n64 Caetani’s Blood:
\nMagnificence, Lineage, and Martyrdom
\nin the Family Chapel of Santa Pudenziana
\nEnrico Parlato
\n88 “A Gem Set in Most Resplendent Gold”:
\nGirolamo Rusticucci’s Confessio Chapel in Santa Susanna
\nSteven F. Ostrow
\n112 A Splendid Shrine for an Ugly Image:
\nVisual Interactions in the Salviati Chapel at San Gregorio al Celio
\nChiara Franceschini
\n146 Carving Out Identity:
\nThe Boncompagni Family, Alessandro Algardi,
\nand the Chapel in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in Vallicella
\nGuendalina Serafinelli
\n166 The Angelic Balustrade of the Spada Chapel
\nin San Girolamo della Carità
\nLouise Rice
\n190 The Arm Relic as Index of the Body:
\nThe Chapel of Francis Xavier in the Gesù
\nAlison C. Fleming and Stephanie C. Leone
\n212 A Chapel in Dialogue:
\nThe Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo
\nFabrizio Federici
\n240 List of Abbreviations
\n241 Bibliography
\n262 Contributors
\n264 Index of Names
\n268 Index of Places
\n271 Photo Credits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6511","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-chiara-franceschini","8":"author-edited-by-patrizia-tosini","9":"author-edited-by-steven-ostrow","10":"publisher-officina-libraria","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nChapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/chapels-of-the-cinquecento-and-seicento-in-the-churches-of-rome\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New discoveries on the patronage and art of several important chapels in Roman churches, exploring thie historical and artistic phenomenon through a number of examples.9 Chapels: An Introduction Chiara Franceschini, Steven F. 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