Exemplum and Imitatio : Countess Matilda and Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola at Polirone
1999; College Art Association; Volume: 81; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00043079.1999.10786908
ISSN1559-6478
Autores Tópico(s)Historical and Religious Studies of Rome
ResumoMatilda of Canossa, countess of Tuscany, was the premier benefactress of the Benedictine monastery of Polirone, where she was buried and memorialized through word and ritual. Matilda was the exemplum for a Renaissance patron, Lucrezia Pico della Mirandola, who bequeathed her estates to build a new abbey church. The vicissitudes of that project and of Lucrezia's reputation as its patron were resolved with the monks' eventual decision to preserve the medieval, Canossan basilica, renovated by Giulio Romano, and to portray Lucrezia as a “new Matilda.”
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