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Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 2022

This contribution details the history of the church of Santa Lucia in Selci from its sixteenth-ce... more This contribution details the history of the church of Santa Lucia in Selci from its sixteenth-century refoundation as a cloistered convent of first Benedictine (1534), then Augustinian (1568), nuns to its seventeenth-century reconstruction and redecoration by a series of artistic luminaries, adducing a wealth of unpublished archival sources. The role of Bartolomeo Bassi, not Carlo Maderno as previously thought, is shown in designing and building the original church and convent (1603-1605). The patronage history of the church's individual chapels is reconstructed and each is analysed cautiously to separate the design roles of Carlo Maderno, his studio, and others. Borromini's work in the church has hitherto not received due recognition, neither for its important place in the earliest period of his independent activity as an architect nor for its relation to his contemporary output. First, the Cappella Landi (1638-39) is analysed, with particular attention to its rich and unexamined Trinitarian symbolism and the role of the Cavaliere d'Arpino. An iconographical program for the chapel's stuccoes is also presented for the first time. Secondly, the cantoria (choir loft), built between 1630 and 1640, is analysed with a view to the pivotal role of choral music in the overall design of the church and the life of the convent. Finally, an attempt is made to meticulously reconstruct the appearance of Borromini's lost High Altar (ca. 1636-1643), which was destroyed in the mid-19th century. A sense of its appearance can be gleaned from autograph drawings and an engraving, though careful analysis is necessary to track the phases in its construction and filter out ephemeral elements from the permanent design. A coda to the main article details the origins and demise of the neighbouring and now largely demolished church and convent of the Poor Clares at Santa Maria della Purificazione, its artworks, and its design by the little-known Giovanni Paolo Maggi.

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 2021

A round temple at Rome, thought to have been dedicated to Hercules Victor in Foro Boario, and pro... more A round temple at Rome, thought to have been dedicated to Hercules Victor in Foro Boario, and probably founded by Scipio Aemilianus in 142 BCE (and therefore also called the Aedes Aemiliana), survived until its demolition under Sixtus IV, probably in 1477. Notes and sketches made in the early sixteenth century by Baldassare Peruzzi, and copied by Pirro Ligorio, help reconstruct both the temple’s appearance and materials, which suggest that it was reconstructed in the early Augustan period (possibly ca. 16 BCE). The vanished temple was articulated in what is often called the “Roman Doric” (a modern term that denotes a supposed hybrid of Greek Doric and Italian Tuscan), whose properties and origins are identified and discussed, especially as regards the necessity of accommodating the idioms of Italian architecture to the imported innovations of Hellenistic Greek design. The article argues that all tholoi probably had internal domes, the Aedes Aemiliana included, and speculates on which vault decorations would have been most appropriate in a temple dedicated to Hercules.

C. Giometti & C. M. Sicca (eds.), I colori del marmo (Pisa: University of Pisa), 2019

Proof copy. In the published version, the quotations are all translated into English

C. Franceschini, S. Ostrow & P. Tosini (eds.), Chapels in Roman Churches between the Cinquecento and the Seicento: Form and Meaning (Milan: Officina Libraria, 2019): 39-61, 2019

41 40 faBio Barry Between all'antica and acheiropoieton 4 3 43 42 faBio Barry Between all'antica ... more 41 40 faBio Barry Between all'antica and acheiropoieton 4 3 43 42 faBio Barry Between all'antica and acheiropoieton

D. Rodríguez Ruiz (ed.), Giovanni Battista Piranesi en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, 2019): 183-194, 2019

C. Giometti & C. M. Sicca (eds.), I colori del marmo (Pisa: University of Pisa, 2019), 2019

I colori del marmo / a cura di Cristiano Giometti e Cinzia Maria Sicca. -Pisa : Pisa university p... more I colori del marmo / a cura di Cristiano Giometti e Cinzia Maria Sicca. -Pisa : Pisa university press, 2019. -(Studi e fonti per la storia della scultura ; 7) 735.21 (22.) I. Giometti, Cristiano II. Sicca, Cinzia Maria 1. Sculture in marmo -Italia -Sec. 16.-18. 2. Intarsi marmorei -Italia -Sec. 16.-18. CIP a cura del Sistema bibliotecario dell'Università di Pisa In copertina: Pompeo Targone et alii, Altare della Salus Popoli Romani, 1605-1613. Roma, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Cappella della Salus Popoli Romani. Particolare del cielo in lapislazzuli In quarta di copertina: Guarino Guarini (su disegno di), Decorazioni lapidee delle lesene, 1680 circa. Torino, San Lorenzo

Art Bulletin, 2017

Although Pliny the Elder had spoken (70/77 CE) metaphorically of colored marble as “painting in s... more Although Pliny the Elder had spoken (70/77 CE) metaphorically of colored marble as “painting in stone,” Early Modern artists concluded that he meant a chemical means of tinting stones. In the seventeenth century artists from Italy to England invented techniques of “painting in stone” to reproduce the images created by Nature the Painter, not only as cabinet curiosities, but also religious images whose miraculous “eikonogenesis” could replicate the acheirpoieton (“the image not made by human hands”). In the eighteenth century the technique was discovered anew by the Comt de Caylus, and became the subject of a querelle between the new science in Paris and the old alchemy in Naples.

“Im/material Bernini,” in E. Levy & C. Mangone (eds.), Material Bernini (Abingdon/New York: Routl... more “Im/material Bernini,” in E. Levy & C. Mangone (eds.), Material Bernini
(Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2016): 39-67. UNCORRECTED PROOFS

Papers of the British School at Rome, 2003

JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. This content downloaded from 171.67.34.69 on Wed,

The Art Bulletin, 2007

When Hagia Sophia,the vast cathedral of Byzantium, was completedand dedicated with great fanfare ... more When Hagia Sophia,the vast cathedral of Byzantium, was completedand dedicated with great fanfare shortly after Christmas 537, the emperor Justinian could rightly say (as a later source claims) that he had outdone Solomon. Such was ... 2). Receptive spectators could read ...

Art Bulletin, 2011

The Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth) has earned popular fame as an enchanted lie detector. The... more The Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth) has earned popular fame as an enchanted lie detector. The ancient effigy actually represents the god Oceanus: primordial water, end of the earth and threshold of the heavens, spring- board from history to eternity. As such, the figure recurrently surfaces in Roman iconography, mythography, rhetoric, political history, numismatics, hymnody, and material symbolism. In the context of the Forum Boarium, the Bocca was integral to the myth of the Romanized Hercules; evidence suggests its creation in Hadrian's reign as part of a universal symbolism that characterized the emperor as cosmocrat and alter Hercules.

A reinterpretation of Piranesi's complex of S. Maria del Priorato on the Aventine, Rome.

Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 2022

Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 2021

C. Giometti & C. M. Sicca (eds.), I colori del marmo (Pisa: University of Pisa), 2019

Proof copy. In the published version, the quotations are all translated into English

C. Franceschini, S. Ostrow & P. Tosini (eds.), Chapels in Roman Churches between the Cinquecento and the Seicento: Form and Meaning (Milan: Officina Libraria, 2019): 39-61, 2019

D. Rodríguez Ruiz (ed.), Giovanni Battista Piranesi en la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España, 2019): 183-194, 2019

C. Giometti & C. M. Sicca (eds.), I colori del marmo (Pisa: University of Pisa, 2019), 2019

Art Bulletin, 2017

Papers of the British School at Rome, 2003

The Art Bulletin, 2007

Art Bulletin, 2011

A reinterpretation of Piranesi's complex of S. Maria del Priorato on the Aventine, Rome.

I Colori del Marmo , 2019

Cristiano Giometti insegna Storia dell'Arte Moderna all'Università degli Studi di Firenze (Dipart... more Cristiano Giometti insegna Storia dell'Arte Moderna all'Università degli Studi di Firenze (Dipartimento SAGAS). È specialista di scultura barocca, cui ha dedicato studi monografici, della diffusione in Italia e in Europa del linguaggio artistico romano del Seicento, e di storia delle esposizioni internazionali di antichi maestri nella prima metà del Novecento.

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Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome, 2020

Just out with Officina Libraria! Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome... more Just out with Officina Libraria!

Chapels of the Cinquecento and Seicento in the Churches of Rome, edited by Chiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini, Milano: Officina Libraria, 2020

Nine studies of early modern private chapels as multimedia “laboratories” for social and devotional display and for artistic invention and innovation in 16th- and 17th-century Rome.

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 nine examples involving the patronage of prominent Roman families such as the Frangipane, Spadas, Caetanis, Cybos and important artists and architects such as Federico Zuccari, Annibale Carracci, Giacomo della Porta, Francesco da Volterra, Carlo Maderno, Alessandro Algardi, Carlo Maratta.

Table of Contents:

Chapels: An Introduction
Chiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini

Map of the Churches

The Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello: Farnesian Devotion, Antiquarian Taste, and Municipal Pride
Patrizia Tosini

Between all’Antica and Acheiropoieton: The Cappella Gregoriana in the Ekphrases
of Lorenzo Frizolio (1582) and Ascanio Valentino (1583)
Fabio Barry

Caetani’s Blood: Magnificence, Lineage, and Martyrdom in the Family Chapel of Santa Pudenziana
Enrico Parlato

“A Gem Set in Most Resplendent Gold”: Girolamo Rusticucci’s Confessio Chapel in Santa Susanna
Steven F. Ostrow

A Splendid Shrine for an Ugly Image: Visual Interactions in the Salviati Chapel at San Gregorio al Celio
Chiara Franceschini

Carving Out Identity: The Boncompagni Family, Alessandro Algardi, and the Chapel in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in Vallicella
Guendalina Serafinelli

The Angelic Balustrade of the Spada Chapel in San Girolamo della Carità
Louise Rice

The Arm Relic as Index of the Body: The Chapel of Francis Xavier in the Gesù
Alison C. Fleming and Stephanie C. Leone

A Chapel in Dialogue: The Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo
Fabrizio Federici

List of abbreviations
Bibliography

Contributors

Index of Names
Index of Places
Photo Credits

Painting in Stone. Architecture and the Poetics of Marble from Antiquity to the Enlightenment, 2020

Suzi's Book Bag, 2024

Interview with me by journalist and literary editor Suzy Feay in her fascinating series of author... more Interview with me by journalist and literary editor Suzy Feay in her fascinating series of author interviews on "Suzi's Book Bag"

35-minute film written and directed by Pelé Cox. Cast: Désirée Ballantyne, Damian Lewis, Simon M... more 35-minute film written and directed by Pelé Cox.

Cast: Désirée Ballantyne, Damian Lewis, Simon Manyonda, Christian Roe, Nicholas Rowe

My role: art director, artwork, editor, voice-over.

Watch film on BSR YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5kzMK1UL4

Round Temples before the Pantheon, 2021

Recorded and viewable on the BSR YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxM9pdsjpdk

Burlington Magazine, 2022

F 's book about stones alters our understanding of the sacred, or at least symbolic, nature of mu... more F 's book about stones alters our understanding of the sacred, or at least symbolic, nature of much of the great architecture of the past. In addition to his command of specialist modern scholarship in several languages, he has studied many old and o en obscure texts, and supplies translations of these. But his ideas have developed on site as well as in libraries. In the ruins of the mountain-top Temple of Apollo at Bassae he is surprised that archaeologists have ignored the varieties of colour in the local limestones. In a monastery on Mount Athos he nds an episcopal pendant (enkolpion) supposedly cut from the marble slab on which the dead body of Christ was anointed (the 'Stone of Unction'). He has also hunted down the few surviving scraps of 'specular stone' that once served as windowpanes in Pompeii and Ostia. Although he also includes discussions of synthetic substitutes for stone, such as Egyptian faience and glass and, centuries later, the development of scagliola and stucco lustro, there are four types of stone that play a major part in Painting in Stone.

West 86th, 2019

Two comparable national museum institutions have recently opened exhibitions that foreground issu... more Two comparable national museum institutions have recently opened exhibitions that foreground issues of dress and national identity. The transnational stories that emerge reveal the inextricable role of international trade and media in the invention, mediation, and evolution of national culture embodied in dress.

West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture 26, no. 2 (2019): 325–330, 2019

Review

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2004

I marmi colorati della Roma imperiale con-fronted the viewer with a material panoply that was onc... more I marmi colorati della Roma imperiale con-fronted the viewer with a material panoply that was once the trademark of both private opulence and public pres-tige in imperial Rome. Granites and alabasters had joined limestones in Egyptian temples since the second mil-lennium ...

The Journal of Roman Studies, 2003

Early Modern Intermediality Stanford University, 2-3 March 2018 This conference will broach the... more Early Modern Intermediality
Stanford University, 2-3 March 2018

This conference will broach the theme of “intermediality” in early modern art (c. 1400-1650). This neologism is absent from the early modern lexicon (as is “medium”). However, we are concerned with how communication across media became a newly self-conscious condition of art making, a means of expression and exchange.

From the fifteenth century on, the diversification of media and growing dialectic between modalities of art making catalyzed theorization of media. Successive themes included disegno vs. colore, the paragone, the bel composto, and others. Central to these theorizations was the role of disegno (“drawing”/”design”). By the mid-sixteenth century, Italian theorists upheld disegno as the parent of all the arts, and both the concept and practice subsumed all artistic creation into a single faculty.

It is our aim to consider the medial consequences of this mindset. Key is the influence that the expanded role of preparatory drawings (in varying materials) across the arts. Yet, drawing was not the only medium. Clay and wax sketches were used by painters, sculptors, and architects in the design process, and prints were pervasive brokers of intermedial thinking. Revisions in thought provoked by one medium also might promote new resolutions in another. As each iteration of an idea brought with it the implications of the substance in which that idea had been formerly assayed, one outcome might be a “transferred materiality” in which the properties of one material or medium were transferred to another (e.g. to carve marble as though it were wax); or a “discursive mediality” in which artists put one medium in dialogue with another. The graduation of the idea through material metamorphosis might also imply a supramaterial medium (e.g. an “architecture of light,” or changeling substance) or even a fusion into new chimerical categories.

We seek papers across early modern art production in Europe and the Americas, whether in painting, sculpture, architecture, drawing, print, or textile. We are also interested to hear discussions of figures whose own production was intermedial or anti-intermedial; investigations of those moments in art theoretical literature where the intermedial is addressed; and especially those artworks in which artists visibly confronted the issue. Finally, we are eager to hear the voices of people who challenge this position, whether the argument or its periodization.

The conference proceedings will be published. All travel expenses, accommodation, and meals will be provided.

Please send abstracts of 250 words and a CV, by July 15, 2017, jointly to the below email addresses:

Fabio Barry, Stanford University fmb1@stanford.edu
Evonne Levy, University of Toronto Evonne.levy@utoronto.ca

The processes between use and (re)use: carvers, builders, middlemen, and their roles in the Roman... more The processes between use and (re)use: carvers, builders, middlemen, and their roles in the Roman and late antique recycling industry