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Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts Collins, Jeffrey (Professor of 17th- and 18th-Century Art and Visual Culture, University of Washington)
Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts
Collins, Jeffrey (Professor of 17th- and 18th-Century Art and Visual Culture, University of Washington)
Pius VI was the last great papal patron of the arts in the Renaissance and Baroque tradition. This book explores how he used the arts strategically, as a means of countering the growing hostility to the old order and the supremacy of the papacy.
378 pages, 186 b/w illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | April 8, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521809436 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 378 |
| Dimensions | 264 × 214 × 27 mm · 1.04 kg |
| Language | English |