Transcript cagliari and valencia during the baroque age

CAGLIARI AND VALENCIA
DURING THE BAROQUE AGE
CAGLIARI AND VALENCIA
DURING THE BAROQUE AGE
ESSAYS ON ART, HISTORY AND LITERATURE
edited by
Alessandra Pasolini and Rafaella Pilo
Cover: Domenico Conti, 1670-1672, Cagliari, Santuario di Nostra Signora di Bonaria
Above: La Vergine protegge il re di Spagna e l’Ordine mercedario
On the left: San Pietro Nolasco attraversa il Mediterraneo
On the right: Il venerabile Pietro Nolasco Perra è premiato dalla Vergine
Photographed by: Fabrizio Tola
© The Authors, 2016
© 2016, Albatros Ediciones, La Olivereta, 28, 46018 Valencia (Spain)
[email protected]
ISBN: 978-84-7274-331-1
DL: V. 1.797 - 2016
Printed in Spain
Artes Gráficas Soler, S. L. - www.graficas-soler.com
Il libro è dedicato all’affettuoso ricordo di Lidia Saba
Rafaella
CON T ENTS
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Iconographic ...........................................................................................
9
Notes on Contributors .............................................................................
12
Preface: Joan Bosch ................................................................................
15
Introduction: Alessandra Pasolini and Rafaella Pilo .................................
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PART I: INSTITUTIONAL SCENE IN THE SPANISH
MEDITERRANEAN
Patrimonio y familia de don Juan Vives de Cañamás, embajador en Génova
y virrey de Cerdeña
Nuria Verdet Martínez ...........................................................................
25
Al servicio del Rey en las cortes de Cagliari, Valencia y Madrid: Jorge de Castelví y Melchor Sisternes
Laura Gómez Orts and Javier Revilla Canora .........................................
45
The Spanish Monarchy and the French hegemony in the age of the dynastic
change in Madrid (1690-1700). A case study: the Kingdom of Valencia
Rafaella Pilo ...........................................................................................
73
PART II: RITUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF POWER
Relaciones de sucesos italianas y traducciones sobre el viaje triunfal de Margarita de Austria (1598-1599)
Gabriel Andrés .......................................................................................
97
Art in times of crisis: the Camarasa plot and the Mercedarian Cycle in
Cagliari (1670-72)
Alessandra Pasolini ................................................................................. 111
Family strategies, private investments and cult of the image in the architecture
of Seventeenth-century in Sardinia
Marcello Schirru .................................................................................... 139
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CONTENTS
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PART III: ARTISTIC PATRONAGE. THE “STRANGE CASE”
OF THE VII DUKE OF MONTALTO BETWEEN CAGLIARI
AND VALENCIA (1644-1658)
La committenza artistica dei viceré valenzani nella Sardegna del Seicento
Sara Caredda .......................................................................................... 165
«Las obras superfluas» di Luigi Guglielmo Moncada. La rappresentazione del
potere vicereale a Cagliari nella “crisi” degli anni Quaranta del Seicento
Valeria Manfrè and Ida Mauro ............................................................... 183
Sobre el enigmático pintor «don Blas» al servicio de los duques de Alcalá y
Montalto
Yolanda Gil Saura .................................................................................. 215
Postface: Nicoletta Bazzano ..................................................................... 225
Archival Sources ...................................................................................... 231
Selected bibliography ............................................................................... 233
Index ...................................................................................................... 237