Bernini’s Barcaccia in the Piazza di Spagna. An art-political no man’s land

• Autores: Irving Lavin
• Localización: Artibus et historiae: an art anthology, ISSN 0391-9064, Nº. 84, 2021, págs. 221-235
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • There is no doubt that the history of the papacy is full of pontiffs who enjoyed a good joke. None (at least to this author’s knowledge) had ever made good humor and wit a matter of public policy before Urban VIII who commissioned Gianlorenzo Bernini to create the fountain known as ‘la Barcaccia’. This article relates the resolution of a dangerous political situation involving France, Spain, and the Papacy in the late 1620s to the expression of joy, spiritual, intellectual, and civic, in the form of a public monument in the heart of Rome.