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The early modern cardinal : An historical appraisal
Pattenden, Miles
Pattenden, Miles
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‘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...
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2021
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Portrait cultures of the early modern cardinal
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43-66
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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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