Courageous and politically incorrect women
Beatrice Cenci (1577–1599) – a patricide absolved by Romans, commemorated by the city
Giulia Farnese Orsini – black-eyed ad black-haired papal mistress
Imperia Cognati - the most famous courtesan of Renaissance Rome
Christina of Sweden (1626–1689) – a significant, yet cumbersome papal guest
Marcella (approx. 325–410) – a curious erudite from Aventine Hill
Marozia (892? – 936?) – „beautiful as a goddess and fiery as a wench”
Paula of Rome (347–404) – an example of womanly virtues
Pauline Borghese (1780–1825) – a French provocateur in the papal chapel
Silvia Ruffini (approx. 1475–1561) – a lonely, quiet widow, with a group of a cardinal’s children
Theodora the Elder (? – 928?) – a prostitute or a woman of „truly manly strength”?
Tullia d’Aragona (1508? – 1556) – the queen of literary salons
Vanozza Cattanei (1442–1518) – the unofficial wife of the pope and the official mother of his children
Saint Jerome (between 331 and 347 – 420) – „Romans hide your daughters because Jerome is coming”
NewsSaint Jerome (between 331 and 347 – 420) – „Romans hide your daughters because Jerome is coming”
We are familiar with this interpreter of the Bible mainly from images showing his old, rachitic body. However, behind the official façade of a hermit and erudite hides a man prone to conflicts and uncompromising, whose figure is willingly (today) recalled by those who, on one hand, want to show his misogyny, and on the other those who would like to prove that his attitude is the best evidence of valuing women in the late-antiquity Church. And where was the actual truth?
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The Roman career of Domenichino was hanging by a thread. First the death of Pope Clement VIII, whose nepot (Pietro Aldobrandini) was the artist’s patron, and then the death of his master Annibale Carracci (1609) meant that commissions no longer came. And only on the eve of his departure for Bologna, the painter obtained a very prestigious commission, namely the painting of The Last Communion of St Jerome, to be quickly followed by a series of frescoes concerning the life of St. Cecilia. These frescoes were ordered by a wealthy merchant as an element of the decoration of the Roman F...
See moreDomenichino’s The Last Communion of St. Jerome – a work about the superiority of communion under one kind
NewsDomenichino’s The Last Communion of St. Jerome – a work about the superiority of communion under one kind
When in 1614 this painting was hung at the main altar of the Church of San Girolamo della Carità at via Monserrato, it aroused such a great admiration, that the inhabitants of Rome went on veritable pilgrimages to visit it, praising its religious depth, power of expression, and realism. The work as well as its creator – Domenichino, were the talk of the entire artistic world. Only one man looked upon them with skepticism and jealousy. This was, the well-known in the city on the Tiber painter Lanfranco. A few years later he accused Domenichino of plagiarism, desiring to cover him i...
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