Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy
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A01=Minou Schraven
Author_Minou Schraven
Cardinal Cesi
Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini
Castrum Doloris
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AB
Category=NL-AB
Category=NL-HB
Catholic ritual studies
Conspicuous Commemoration
COP=United Kingdom
De Grassis
Deceased Cardinal
Discount=15
dynastic commemoration
early modern Rome research
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
festival book analysis
Festive Obsequies
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
Funeral Apparati
Funeral Apparato
Funeral Book
Heraldic Funeral
HMM=246
IMPN=Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN13=9780754665243
Language_English
Liturgical Focal Point
Modern Rome
PA=Available
papal ceremonial history
Papal Funeral
Paris De Grassis
Paul III
Pauline Chapel
PD=20140428
Philip III
Pope Paul III
post-Tridentine liturgy
Price_€100 to €200
PS=Active
PUB=Taylor & Francis Ltd
Reburial Ceremonies
Requiem Mass
Sala Dei Cento Giorni
Salviati Chapel
SN=Visual Culture in Early Modernity
St Antoninus
St Gudule
Subject=History
Subject=The Arts: General Issues
temporary funeral architecture Italy
WG=998
WMM=174
Product details
- ISBN 9780754665243
- Format: Hardback
- Weight: 997g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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 Drawing from printed festival books and previously unpublished sources, such as ceremonial diaries and diplomatic correspondence, this book offers the first comprehensive overview of the development of early modern funeral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.
