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Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts
Papacy and Politics in EighteenthCentury Rome Pius VI and the Arts
Author: Jeffrey Collins
This book explores how Pius VI, the last great papal patron of the arts in the Renaissance and Baroque tradition, used the arts as a means of countering growing hostility to the old order and the supremacy of the papacy. Pius' initiatives, included the grand sacristy for St. Peter's, the new Vatican Museum of ancient art, and the re-erection of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521809436
ISBN-10: 0521809436
Publication Date: 4/12/2004
Pages: 378
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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