Sack Of Rome Research Articles

Drawings by Perino Del Vaga for the Palazzo Doria, Genoa

DURING the five years and five months between the death of Leo X and the Sack of Rome, conditions grew increasingly difficult for artists. Commissions became scarce and patrons were not as lavish as they once had been. A series of disasters—the austere administration of Adrian VI, who did not approve of art, an outbreak of the plague, and finally, most devastatingly, the Sack itself—gradually forced even the best artists to abandon Rome for more secure positions in provincial courts. Among the last of the leading artists to leave the city was Perino del Vaga. Perino had been imprisoned during the Sack and had suffered severely. When, through the kindness of Niccolò Viniziano, Perino received an offer of employment from Prince Andrea Doria, he departed for Genoa where he remained for approximately ten years.1

A panorama of the sack of Rome by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

(1959). A panorama of the sack of Rome by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Imago Mundi: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 64-73.

Alfonso de Valdés and the Sack of Rome: Dialogue of Lactancio and an Archdeacon. John E. Longhurst

Previous articleNext article No AccessReviews Alfonso de Valdés and the Sack of Rome: Dialogue of Lactancio and an Archdeacon . John E. Longhurst Normand R. CartierNormand R. Cartier Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Speculum Volume 29, Number 1Jan., 1954 The journal of the Medieval Academy of America Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2853875 Views: 2Total views on this site Copyright 1954 The Mediaeval Academy of AmericaPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Early Christian Sculpture: Its Restoration and its Modern Manufacture

IN an article published two years ago1 I devoted a few words to the present generally deplorable condition of Early Christian sarcophagi. All those in the catacombs, if they happened to be in places which were conspicuous and of easy access, were already reduced to pieces in antiquity.2 The barbarians known generically under the name of Getae, before they undertook the assault and sack of Rome, penetrated into the sacred cemeteries and sacrilego verterunt corde sepulcra. These are the words of Pope Vigilius in the commemorative inscription which he composed about 550, recording the damage done and his own efforts at repair, since he hostibus expulsis omne novavit opus.3 From this “renovation” are however to be excluded the broken sarcophagi which were never re-made or restored.

The Age of the Renascence. An Outline Sketch of the History of the Papacy from the Return from Avignon to the Sack of Rome (1377-1527). Paul Van Dyke

<i>The Age of the Renascence. An Outline Sketch of the History of the Papacy from the Return from Avignon to the Sack of Rome (1377-1527)</i>. Paul Van Dyke