Overview

Dealing with a complex king, this edited collection elucidates a monarch’s vision of Rome that deeply affected his political choices and cultural policy during the first half of the eighteenth-century. John V of Portugal became king in 1707 in a pivotal moment for the European balance of power. The Kingdom of Portugal was still demanding the same privileges as its powerful neighbours and the relation with Rome was considered a vehicle to obtain them. Arts and music had a special and unprecedented place in the king’s plans and this book approaches that dynamic from several interdisciplinary perspectives. The unifying thread across this book’s chapters remains the omnipresence of Rome as a paradigm on several levels: political, religious, intellectual, artistic, and musical. Rather than providing an exhaustive analysis of the period as a whole, this study offers a fresh approach for English readers to this classic, but little known, topic in Portuguese national historiography.

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Author:   Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Voltaire Foundation
Volume:   2019:10
ISBN:  

9781789620122

ISBN 10:   1789620120
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   14 October 2019
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations List of abbreviations Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira, Introduction: il viaggio mancato – John V and the origins of his vision of Rome I. Rome: paradigm and propaganda David Martín Marcos, Beyond policy: shaping the image of John V of Portugal in Rome Marília de Azambuja Ribeiro, Politics, spectacle and propaganda: the political use of patronage and the press by John V’s representatives in Rome during the first half of the eighteenth century Danielle Kuntz, ‘S’unisca il Tago al Tebro, il Tebro al Tago’: the politics of Portuguese patronage in Alessandro Scarlatti’s La Virtù negli amori Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira,The Accademia del Portogallo: emulation and strategy in the papal city  II. Lisbon: creative reappropriation Cristina Fernandes, Music, ceremonial and architectural spaces in the patriarchal church of King John V: the remaking of Roman models Fernando Miguel M. Jalôto, Antonio Tedeschi, ‘Sanctæ Patriarchalis Ecclesiæ Regius Cantor’: an Italian musician at the court of John V Giuseppina Raggi, Rethinking the artistic policy of King John V of Portugal and Queen Maria Anna of Habsburg: architecture and opera theatre Iris Haist, The marbles and the modelli of Mafra: John V and the taste for Italian baroque sculpture Summaries  Bibliography Index

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'This study [...] constitutes a far richer and more subtle description of music in Lisbon at the time of King Joao V than what was previously available, and provides a broader and richer political and sociocultural context.'Translated from Spanish:'Este estudio [...] constituye una descripcion mucho mas completa y sutil de la musica de Lisboa en la epoca del rey Joao V que la disponible hasta ahora y proporciona un contexto politico y sociocultural mas amplio y rico.' David Cranmer, Cuadernos de musica iberoamericana

Author Information

Pilar Diez del Corral Corredoira is Ramón y Cajal Fellow based at the Art History department of the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid). She wrote a PhD on Classical Art and has widely published in international journals (The Burlington Magazine, Storia dell’Arte, etc). Her current research is focused on Iberian cultural identities, artistic mobility and diplomacy in Rome in the 18th Century.

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