Download Church, State and Lay Piety Florence and Venice in the

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 (145961)
• “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. 140615), 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
Gentile Bellini, Patriarch Lorenzo
Giustiniani (1459)
• 1606-7 Interdict
The Parish
Confraternities
• laudesi
• sacre
rappresentazi
oni
Santa Maria
Novella
(Dominican)
Sa
nta
Ma
ria
No
vell
a
Santa Croce
(Franciscan)
San Giovanni e Paolo (Dominican)
Santa Maria dei Frari (Franciscan)
Preachers
• Saint Bernardino of Siena
(1380-44), Saint Antoninus
(1389-1459), Savonarola
(1452-98)
• Bernardino Ochino (14871564)
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)