Die prontezza des Kardinalnepoten und Guercinos Aurora und Fama. Das Casino Ludovisi in Rom

• Autores: Eva-Bettina Krems
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 65, Nº. 2, 2002, págs. 180-220
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • The writer considers Guercino's Aurora and Fama wall and ceiling paintings in the Casino Ludovisi, Rome, in the light of the political concerns of Pope Gregory XV and his nephew, Cardinal Ludovico Ludovisi. The villa in Rome served Ludovico as a place in which to demonstrate and promote his political and dynastic ideas, and these ideas form the basis of an understanding of the building's interior decorations. The Sala della Fama, with decorations by Guercino, represents the focus and highpoint of the furnishings. The writer focuses in particular on Guercino's visual response to the notion of prontezza, the fight against time through the seizing of the right moment, a key element of Ludovico's political philosophy.