The Palace-City Interface: Representing the Family in Baroque Rome
| dc.contributor.author | McKinnon, Matthew Glen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-07T16:13:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-11-07T16:13:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description | 35 pages | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay considers four seventeenth-century Roman palaces in the contexts of topographical setting and city circulation, with particular attention to the façade as a definer of place. It draws on seventeenth-century guidebooks, etchings, and maps, analyzing them within the frameworks of papal urbanism and dynastic self-representation. The results of the analysis show that, during each pontificate from 1605-67, the pope encouraged his relatives to develop or redevelop the family palace in a way that would inscribe their image onto the city. Once constructed, each palace became the center of an urban node, symbolically connected with other monumental landmarks by the viewer’s movement through the city. The space around the palace façade was also subject to design, and each pope utilized different strategies to enhance the location and context of his family’s palace. Comparing the cases, the essay argues that Innocent X and Alexander VII integrated public-welfare urbanism more fully into the family palace project. More broadly, this comparative study reveals some qualities of early modern urban theory and design, as well as shifts in urban planning mentality. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/25043 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | University of Oregon | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US | |
| dc.subject | Art History | en_US |
| dc.subject | Palace | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rome | en_US |
| dc.subject | Urbanism | en_US |
| dc.subject | Early Modern | en_US |
| dc.subject | Movement | en_US |
| dc.title | The Palace-City Interface: Representing the Family in Baroque Rome | |
| dc.type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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