Il cardinale Gianfrancesco Albani e le arti tra Roma e Urbino
Subtitle: il ritratto ritrovato = Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani and the arts between Rome and Urbino : a rediscovered portrait
By: a cura di Lucia Simonato
Contributors: Palazzo ducale (Urbino, Italy)
Publisher: Silvana editoriale
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Cinisello Balsamo, Milano
Language: ita; eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9788836637690
Subjects: Italian Art; Exhibitions; Portraits; Congresses; Art patronage; Art
Other titles: Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani and the arts between Rome and Urbino
Description: "This elegant exhibition...makes an important contribution to our knowledge concerning the activity of the Carrara sculptor Domenico Guidi. Guidi's catalogue has now been expanded after the discovery of a portrait bust depicting one of Urbino's most illustrious citizens: Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani...."--P. [7].

"Upon his elevation to the cardinalate in 1690, Gianfrancesco Albani began to take on a key role in the art policy of the State of the Church, as much in Rome as in the city where he was born, Urbino. As cardinal he anticipated various aspects that became central when he rose to the papal throne as Clement XI (1700-1721): his interest in Raphael and the Vatican Stanze, his relationship with academies and the attention he reserved for the Marche territory.The research presented in this volume, which developed out of the discovery, at the University of Urbino, of a marble portrait of Albani made by Domenico Guidi in 1692, aims to offer an initial contextualisation of Albani's relationship with the arts, and in particular his collecting activity and ties to a few particular painters and sculptors he met while a prelate. To these he entrusted, once he became pope, the artistic direction of Clementine Rome and the launch of a 'second Renaissance' in Urbino. First and foremost, Carlo Maratti."--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo ducale, Urbino, Italy, July 13-October 29, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155) and index.

Text in Italian and English.