Gli obelischi egizi : politica e cultura nella Roma barocca

Author

Cipriani, Giovanni

Document type

Livre

Language

Italian

Collection

Accademia toscana di scienze e lettere "la colombaria": studi ; Num. CXXXI.

Source

Gli obelischi egizi : politica e cultura nella Roma barocca. 1993, 205 p., 44 ill.; bibliogr.; index

ISBN

88-222-4060-X

Publisher

L.S. Olschki, Firenze (ita)

Publication country

Italy

Abstract (en)

Argues that in his urban planning, Sixtus V utilized the Egyptian obelisks of Rome (especially the one in Piazza S. Pietro) as part of Counter-Reformation ideological warfare, to evoke the idea that the foundation of Roman Catholicism lay in Egyptian spirituality. Finds that this ideological statement had a direct influence on the subsequent hermetic studies of Athanasius Kircher and others.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Urbanism -- Italy
• Italy
• Roma (ITA)
• Obelisks
• 1500-1600
• Sixtus V, pope, 1521-1590
• Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
• Architecture
• Egyptian
• Urbanism
• Patronage
• Vaticano, Piazza S. Pietro||Roma (ITA)
• Counter-Reformation
• Egypt

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Urbanisme -- Italie
• Italie
• Roma (ITA)
• Obélisque
• 1500-1600
• Sixte V, pape, 1521-1590
• Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
• Architecture
• Egyptien (art)
• Urbanisme
• Mécénat
• Vaticano, Piazza S. Pietro||Roma (ITA)
• Contre-Réforme
• Egypte

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940401-00342038

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