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Destruction of the Pagan Idols

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Description: Destruction of the Pagan Idols
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Description: After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century
The sack in 1527 is usually taken as the watershed event that marks the end of an era: sometimes the end of humanism, certainly an end to the optimism about man that was its tenet. The Sack offered the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.129-172
Description: The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco,...
When Pope Gregory XIII decided to remodel the Sala di Costantino in 1585 by raising the ceiling and installing larger windows, the new vault required frescoes. Gregory died soon after the project was initiated, and it was continued by Sixtus V, whose emblem is painted in the frieze. At the...
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.117-141
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00155.008

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