Il cardinale Gianfrancesco Albani e le arti tra Roma e Urbino

Lucia Simonato

"This elegant exhibition...makes an important contribution to our knowledge concerning the activity of the Carrara sculptor Domenico Guidi. Guidi's catalogue has now been expanded after the discovery of a portrait bust depicting one of Urbino's most illustrious citizens: Cardinal Gianfrancesco Albani...."--P. [7]. "Upon his elevation to the cardinalate in 1690, Gianfrancesco Albani began to take on a key role in the art policy of the State of the Church, as much in Rome as in the city where he was born, Urbino. As cardinal he anticipated various aspects that became central when he rose to the papal throne as Clement XI (1700-1721): his interest in Raphael and the Vatican Stanze, his relationship with academies and the attention he reserved for the Marche territory.The research presented in this volume, which developed out of the discovery, at the University of Urbino, of a marble...