The Power and the Glorification
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The Power and the Glorification

Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Jan L. de Jong

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The Power and the Glorification

Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Jan L. de Jong

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Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacy's eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewer's experience is central to De Jong's approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and they would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters' advisors did their best to "manipulate" the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271062358
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Renaissance Art

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: The Pope, the Papacy, and the Church
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: The Pope and the King: Alexander VI and Charles VIII of France
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: The Pope and the City: Leo X and the Conservators of Rome
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. Chapter 4: The Pope and the Emperor: Leo X, Clement VII, and Constantine the Great
  15. Notes to Chapter 4
  16. Chapter 5: The Pope and His Family: Paul III and the Farnese
  17. Notes to Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6: The Pope and Secular Power, Muslims, and Heretics: Pius IV, Pius V, and Gregory XIII
  19. Notes to Chapter 6
  20. Epilogue: The Pope and the Past
  21. Notes to Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. COVER Back