Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome: Interpreting the Aula Gotica Fresco Cycle at Santi...

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Marius B. Hauknes (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

Art, Knowledge, and Papal Politics in Medieval Rome

Interpreting the Aula Gotica Fresco Cycle at Santi Quattro Coronati

Marius B. Hauknes (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

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Cambridge University Press
30 January 2025

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; Renaissance art; European history; Medieval history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700

Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are among the most important vestiges of medieval Italian painting. In this volume, Marius Hauknes offers a thorough investigation of the fresco cycle, which includes allegorical representations of the liberal arts, the virtues and vices, the seasons, the signs of the zodiac, and the months of the year. Hauknes relates these subjects to the papacy's growing interest in fields of worldly knowledge, such as music, time, astrology, and medicine. He argues that the Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes function as a large-scale, interactive encyclopedia that not only represented secular knowledge but also produced philosophical speculation, stimulating beholders to draw connections between pictorial motifs across architectural space. Integrating medieval intellectual history with close attention to multi-sensory and architectural conditions of fresco Hauknes' study offers new insights into religion, art, science, and spectatorship in medieval Italy.

By: Marius B. Hauknes (University of Notre Dame Indiana)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 187mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 950g
ISBN: 9781009535762
ISBN 10: 1009535765
Pages: 373
Publication Date: 30 January 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. The Santi Quattro Coronati frescoes in context; 2. Art, learning and reflective viewing: the liberal arts at Santi Quattro Coronati; 3. Emblems of time and political power: the labors of the months at Santi Quattro Coronati; 4. Allegory, history and political eschatology: the virtues and vices at Santi Quattro Coronati; 5. Visual and material entanglement in the Anagni crypt; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography.

Marius B. Hauknes is assistant professor of medieval art at the University of Notre Dame. He has held the Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princton and an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.