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The Enlightened Patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740)

2002; Volume: 23; Issue: 45 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1483685

0391-9064

Edward J. Olszewski,

Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

A survey of the art patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) is presented. This involved a fifty-year-career as Vice-Chancellor of the Church during which time the cardinal engaged painters, sculptors, architects and musicians. Their projects included the Vatican tomb of his great-uncle, Pope Alexander VIII, a confessione and chapel for his basilica of San Lorenzo in Damaso, and a theater and tapestries and paintings for his official palace of the Cancelleria. His artists, many of them court residents, included Arcangelo Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti, Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Gregorini, Angelo de' Rossi, Francesco Trevisani and Sebastiano Conca, among others.