Sixtus IV and the Basso Della Rovere D'Aragona Overdoor
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15thcentury
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architecture
Author_Mauro Mussolin
basrelief
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collection
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Italian
Italy
Liguria
Renaissance
Savoan
sculpture
Product details
- ISBN 9788833670782
- Weight: 327g
- Dimensions: 240 x 165mm
- Publication Date: 23 Nov 2020
- Publisher: Officina Libraria
- Publication City/Country: IT
- Product Form: Paperback
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November 19, 1479: a dynastic alliance, two noble scions, a regal
wedding, short-lived and with an unhappy ending. These pages reconstruct
the story of the magnificent bas relief in the Acton Collection (Villa
La Pietra, Florence), commissioned to celebrate the marriage between
Antonio Basso Della Rovere, nephew of Pope Sixtus IV, and Caterina
Marzano d'Aragona, the niece of King Ferdinand I of Naples. The heraldic
symbols of the three coats of arms leave no doubt about the identities
of the characters and events surrounding its creation, and lead us to
the original location of the work, born as the overdoor to the main
portal of the Basso Della Rovere Palace in piazza della Maddalena in
Savona. Through close examination of the Della Rovere in Rome, this
study highlights some previously unknown facts about the family's
origins and returns to Savona and its role as a political, cultural, and
artistic protagonist in late 15th-century Italy.
Mauro Mussolin, historian of art and architecture, has
published on sacred space and collective rituals, architecture and local
identity, religious orders and cities, and architectural models
drawings and projects by Michelangelo.
