church, state and lay piety
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Church, State and Lay Piety. Florence and Venice in the Renaissance HI320. Canaletto, San Pietro di Castello (C18th). Titian, Doge Antonio Grimani presents himself to the Faith (Palazzo Ducale, 1575-6). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Church, State and Lay Piety
Florence and Venice in the Renaissance HI320
Canaletto, San Pietro di Castello (C18th)
Titian, Doge Antonio Grimani presents
himself to the Faith (Palazzo Ducale, 1575-
6)
Palma il Giovane, Doge Francesco Venier beseeching the
Virgin Mary (Palazzo Ducale, 1595)
Medici Palace Chapel,
Florence, with frescoes by Benozzo
Gozzoli (1459-61)
“in the Italian Republics of the Renaissance
religion ceased to be, as it had been in the
Middle Ages, the preserve of specialists”
(J.J. Martin)
Continuities and Changes
Church and State
• “The church becomes increasingly more like a state, and the state becomes more and more involved in the religious sphere” (R. Bizzocchi)
• Venetian Popes Gregory XII (r. 1406-15), Eugenius IV (r.1431-47)
• nipoti - nepotism
Pinturicchio, Eugenius IV (Siena, 1502-7)
Florence
• Medici Popes Leo X and Clement VII
• War of the Eight Saints (1375-8)
• Interdicts 1376, 1478, 1511
Raphael, Leo X with Giulio de’ Medici (1518-19)
Archbishop of Florence
Antonino Pierozzi (Saint Antoninus),
1389-1459
Lorenzo Lotto, St. Antoninus, 1542
Venice• 1451 Patriarch of Grado
moved to Venice
• Tre savi contra l’eresia
• 1509 Interdict from Julius II
• Giovani resist papal influence
• 1606-7 InterdictGentile Bellini, Patriarch Lorenzo
Giustiniani (1459)
The Parish
Confraternities
• laudesi
• sacre rappresentazioni
SaSanta nta MaMaria ria NoNovelvellala
Santa Maria
Novella (Dominican
)
Santa Croce (Franciscan)
Santa Maria dei Frari (Franciscan)
San Giovanni e Paolo (Dominican)
Preachers
• Saint Bernardino of Siena (1380-44), Saint Antoninus (1389-1459), Savonarola (1452-98)
• Bernardino Ochino (1487-1564)
Religion in everyday life
• ‘The Merchant of Prato’ Francesco Datini: ‘in the name of God and profit’
•“Vengeance must fall on thee, thou filthy whore / Of Babylon, thou breaker of Christ’s fold” (Petrarch, Sonnets)