The Artful Hermitage

The Palazzetto Farnese as a Counter-Reformation Diaeta

by Arnold A. Witte

Book cover: The Artful Hermitage

Extent: 208 pages

Publisher: L’ERMA di Bretschneider

Subjects: Art & Art History

Series: L'ErmArte

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Hardback (Out of print)

(December 2008)

ISBN: 9788882654771

Price: $129.00

Out of stock

From the Contents:INTRODUCTION: Lanfranco's Camerino degli Eremiti
1. ARCHITECTURE, DECORATION AND TYPOLOGY OF THE PALAZZETTO FARNESE: Camerino and Palazzetto: a reconstruction
Decoration of the Palazzetto
The giardino segreto as 'theatre of nature'
The tradition of studioli
Pliny's diaeta and its Cinquecento imitations
Studiolo, garden, and the genre of landscape-painting
The typology of the Palazzetto Farnese
Camerino and Palazzetto - decorative or functional relations?
2. THE CARDINAL'S RETREAT: Palazzo Farnese at Caprarola
The Stanza della Solitudine
The Stanza della Penitenza
Rome: the Casa Professa-apartment
Iconography of the Cappellina Farnese
Ignatius' exemplarity
Jesuit devotional retreats
Caprarola: the Palazzina Farnese
Grottaferrata: the Palazzo Abbaziale
Camaldoli
3. PATRONAGE, PROTECTORATE AND REGULAR REFORMS: Orazione e Morte
The Arciconfraternita and its cardinal protectors
The Quarant'Ore and the Camerino
Sixteenth-century concepts of protectorate
Impending abolition and renewal of the protectorate in 1606
Between regular reform and curial changes
Odoardo Farnese's protectorates
Discalced Carmelites and the mission
The Camerino's Eucharistic message
Saints, protectorates and paintings
4. GARDENS FOR THE SOUL: Cardinals retreating: Sfondrato, Borromeo and Bellarmino
Bellarmino's urban retreat
Funeral monuments as models of devotion
Bellarmino's 'Ladder of Nature'
The garden of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Spiritual Paintings of the Universe
Scenes of martyrdom in San Vitale
Functions of the Sant'Andrea complex
Christian Doctrine and the argument of nature
Pilgrimage and the real world
Missionary theory and natural philosophy
Allegorical gardens in Seicento Rome
The Palazzetto as metaphorical Scala
6. THE IMAGINARY, THE REAL AND THE EXEMPLARY HERMITAGE: Images of hermits
Cinquecento realities of solitary life
The case of Fra Pelagio
De-historicising the hermit
Itinerant hermits in and around Rome
Sant'Onofrio: the monk redressing as hermit
Ephemeral landscapes and theatrical hermits
Giacinto da Casale in Piacenza
Casale's grotto and the Camerino degli Eremiti.

  • By (author) Arnold A Witte