The early modern cardinal : An historical appraisal
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Pattenden, Miles. (2021). The early modern cardinal : An historical appraisal. In In Baker-Bates, Piers and Brooke, Irene (Ed.). Portrait cultures of the early modern cardinal pp. 43-66 Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725514_ch02
Authors | Pattenden, Miles |
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Editors | Baker-Bates, Piers and Brooke, Irene |
Abstract | ‘The Cardinal’ is among the most visual archetypes in European history. His rich red robes and ostentatious headgear betoken the leadership which the pope vests in him; his airs of primordial authority and sacerdotal noblesse instinctively draw the eye. Even an art historical layman can identify a cardinal immediately from the cut and colour of his cloth: scarlet, crimson, carmine, vermilion, ruby – even, as in the famous bespectacled portrait of Fernando Nino de Guevara (Plate 12), rose – the shade of red matters not, for the association of iconography and office is so strong. Cardinals thus, ironically, would seem... |
Page range | 43-66 |
Year | 2021 |
Book title | Portrait cultures of the early modern cardinal |
Publisher | Amsterdam University Press |
Place of publication | Netherlands |
Series | Visual and material culture, 1300–1700 |
ISBN | 9789463725514 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725514_ch02 |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 2021 |
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Deposited | 22 Nov 2021 |
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