Huck
Hi Michael,
Your quotations are nice, but they don't really help, we would need pictures.
We've discussed it earlier and we've written even a letter to the owner of the Petrarca site. He came up with a reference to a commission of Pietro de Medici to Matteo de' Pastis as the earliest examplar with pictures.
.. and this earliest edition with pictures is lost .. or perhaps the commission was never realised.
So ... from which earlier editions did Mr. Carnicelli learn his wisdom?
It seems, that the Bentivoglio interest in art developed with this marriage (this movement should have started already with 1478, when the marriage was contracted and prepared).
It's a general observation, that birth and marriage of the heir of a reigning family usually took a lot of the financial energy of the parents (and a lot more than the birth and marriages of his brothers and sisters. So likely this festivity was the greatest, that the Bentivoglio ever organised.
Likely the chapel commission short after it was strongly influenced by the event short before.
The result of the great success was, that Annibale (and likely also Lucrezia and a greater number of Bolognese people) was invited to all the following great festivities. The social value of the family was shifted considerably.
mjhurst said:Hi, Huck,
The iconographic tradition of Petrarch's Trionfi started in in the 14th century, and was very widespread throughout the 15th century, including not only Continental but also many English examples. The poem was popular in manuscript form from around the time of his death in 1374. Here are some comments from Petrarch scholar D.D. Carnicelli.
Your quotations are nice, but they don't really help, we would need pictures.
We've discussed it earlier and we've written even a letter to the owner of the Petrarca site. He came up with a reference to a commission of Pietro de Medici to Matteo de' Pastis as the earliest examplar with pictures.
.. and this earliest edition with pictures is lost .. or perhaps the commission was never realised.
So ... from which earlier editions did Mr. Carnicelli learn his wisdom?
So, any and every work of art that Costa did in that period would also include a reference to this wedding? Regardless of the nature of the commission or the subject matter depicted? Interesting theory....
It seems, that the Bentivoglio interest in art developed with this marriage (this movement should have started already with 1478, when the marriage was contracted and prepared).
It's a general observation, that birth and marriage of the heir of a reigning family usually took a lot of the financial energy of the parents (and a lot more than the birth and marriages of his brothers and sisters. So likely this festivity was the greatest, that the Bentivoglio ever organised.
Likely the chapel commission short after it was strongly influenced by the event short before.
The result of the great success was, that Annibale (and likely also Lucrezia and a greater number of Bolognese people) was invited to all the following great festivities. The social value of the family was shifted considerably.