Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
Barberini Cultural Policies
Author(s)
Rietbergen, Peter
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what we now call ‘Baroque Culture’.
