Marble revetment in late sixteenth-century Roman chapels

Author

Ostrow, Steven F.

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

IL 60 : essays honoring Irving Lavin on his sixtieth birthday

Author (monograph)

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

IL 60 : essays honoring Irving Lavin on his sixtieth birthday. 1990, p. 253-276, 10 ill.

Publisher

Italica, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Focuses on the chapel of Sixtus V in S. Maria Maggiore, Rome, by Domenico Fontana (1585-90), as an illustration of the argument that marble revetment of chapels in Rome at that time was conceived as an evocation of Early Christian architecture and as an image of paradise.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Italy
• Marble
• Italy
• 1500-1600
• Chapels
• Architecture
• Cappella Sistina || Roma (ITA)//Vaticano
• S. Maria Maggiore||Roma (ITA)
• Fontana, Domenico, 1543-1607
• Early Christian
• Paradise
• Roma (ITA)
• Symbolism
• Vaticano||Roma (ITA)

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Italie
• Marbre
• Italie
• 1500-1600
• Chapelle [édifice]
• Architecture
• Cappella Sistina || Roma (ITA)//Vaticano
• S. Maria Maggiore||Roma (ITA)
• Fontana, Domenico, 1543-1607
• Paléochrétien (art)
• Paradis
• Roma (ITA)
• Symbolisme
• Vaticano||Roma (ITA)

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00454950

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