Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy
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Cardinal Cesi
Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
Castra Doloris
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Conspicuous Commemoration
De Grassis
Deceased Cardinal
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Festive Obsequies
Funeral Apparati
Funeral Apparato
Funeral Book
Heraldic Funeral
Liturgical Focal Point
Papal Funeral
Papal Uncle
Paris De Grassis
Paul III
Pauline Chapel
Piazza Navona
Pope Sixtus
Reburial Ceremonies
Requiem Mass
Sala Dei Cento Giorni
Salviati Chapel
St Antoninus
St Gudule
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- ISBN 9781138548145
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the papal body to the construction of the funeral apparato: the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter’s. The visual and liturgical centre of this apparato was the chapelle ardente or castrum doloris: a baldachin-like structure standing over the body of the deceased, decorated with coats of arms, precious textiles and hundreds of burning candles. Drawing from printed festival books and previously unpublished sources, such as ceremonial diaries and diplomatic correspondence, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of the development of early modern funeral apparati. What was their function in funeral liturgy and early modern festival culture at large? How did the papal funeral apparati compare to those of cardinals, the Spanish and French monarchy, and the Medici court in Florence? And most importantly, how did contemporaries perceive and judge them? By the late sixteenth century, new trends in conspicuous commemoration had rendered the traditional papal funeral apparati in St Peter’s obsolete. The author shows how papal families wishing to honor their uncles according to the new standards needed to invent ceremonial opportunities from scratch, showing off dynastic resilience, while modelling the deceased’s memoria after carefully constructed ideals of post-Tridentine sainthood.
Minou Schraven teaches art history and museum studies at Amsterdam University College.
