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The Printed Illustration of Medieval Architecture in Pre-Enlightenment Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2016

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The aim of this article is to bring to the attention of readers a series of significant examples of texts printed prior to 1700 and illustrated with images of medieval architecture in continental Europe. British illustrations of buildings and ruins from the Middle Ages have received relevant attention from modern scholarly writers, but studies of analogous continental examples are lacking. Illustrations of medieval architecture have been little considered in most studies of the Early Modern period, as compared with those of their sixteenth-to eighteenth-century counterparts. In addition, the few studies that do exist of the interest in medieval buildings and illustration of them, prior to the ‘age of mechanical reproduction’, have generally been restricted to monographs on individual antiquarians or else have focused on Enlightenment, Romantic and Positivist criticism, and have tended to concentrate on medieval revivalism. Furthermore, with the exception of a few studies on the perception of the Romanesque, the most frequently investigated category has been the Gothic. Hence, despite the existence of some crucial works, the perspectives adopted in research into Early Modern attitudes to medieval architecture have inevitably been limited. We still lack any comprehensive overview of the architecture of the Middle Ages as a whole (that is, including the Late Antique / Early Christian era), or any studies showing genuine interest in the late Renaissance and Baroque roots of subsequent antiquarian medievalism. This article, therefore, attempts to begin to fill such a lacuna by studying the architectural aspect of those pre-Enlightenment illustrations of medieval antiquities that appeared in continental Europe, and by considering scholars’ awareness of the entire medieval millennium.

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44 See the section below, ‘Historia Sacra and the representation of Early Christian monuments’.

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47 Zuallart, Jean, Devotissimo viaggio di Gerusalemme (Rome, 1587), pp. airv Google Scholar): ‘Quel che nel fatto posso compiacermi, è che mi vedo esser stato il primo che mi sono adoprato con la vista, che dei luoghi parte per parte scopriva, farne dissegni, i quali, per essere giudicati da quei ch’in quelle parti sono stati, verisimili et naturalissimi, ho sparso per l’opera, et per farle più sottilmente non ho risparmiato a fatiga o spesa alcuna sforzandomi, venuto in Roma, di farle disegnare meglio et farne intaglio per persone prattiche et famose nell’arte. Et se qualcosa vi manca, supplico et ammonisco i pietosi pellegrini et quelli che sono dotati di più sottile ingegno che ‘1 mio, che trovandosi nei luoghi qui descritti, non solo ad imitarne, ma a corregere et accrescere quest’opera, pigliandola non già per modello, ma per abbozzo, et me riputarò molto honorato da quei che si degnaranno farlo, et nei falli miei avvisarmene.’

48 Zuallart’s work may be seen as a technical and more refined counterpart to the Viaggio da Venetia al Santo Sepolchro (Venice, 1587)Google Scholar, attributed to the Franciscan Noè and published in the same year; here the most developed illustrations focus on individual monuments in Jerusalem, emphasising the venerable antiquity of early medieval edifices built on biblical sites.

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53 Baldinucci, Filippo, Notizie de’ professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua (Florence, 1681), p. 113 Google Scholar. ‘[Callot] intagliò il frontespizio del libro intitolato: Trattato delle piante e immagini de’ sacri edifizj di Terra Santa, disegnate in Jerusalemme dal padre fra Bernardino Amico di Gallipoli, de’ minori osservanti, e similmente tutti gl’intagli contenuti in esso libro in numero di trentaquattro pezzi che sono le piante, profili, alzate e spaccati delle sacrate fabbriche di que’ luoghi, ove fu operata nostra redenzione; ed i rami di queste carte si conservano [...] nella Real Guardaroba del Granduca. E giacché parliamo di tal libro, non lascerò di dire, come Pietro della Valle, che ben vide que’ santi luoghi, ne’ suoi Viaggi, attesta che quanto si vede in questo libro del padre Bernardino Amico è degno d’ogni stima per essere in tutto e per tutto le sue figure somigliantissime al vero.’

54 See the ‘Esortatione a quelli che desiderano visitare li sudetti santi luoghi’, inserted at the end of the book.

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57 As is well known, the Centuries were led by Matthias Flacius; on this, and for bibliographical references, see Lyon, Gregory B., ‘Baudoin, Flacius, and the Plan for the Magdeburg Centuries’, Journal of the History of Ideas, 64.2 (April 2003), pp. 25372 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; for Catholic reactions, see pp. 258–59 and related bibliography. On ‘Historia sacra’ and post-Tridentine historiography, see Ditchfield, Simon, Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy. Pietro Maria Campi and the Preservation of the Particular (Cambridge, 1995)Google Scholar, and Simon Ditchfield, ‘Historia magistra sanctitatis. The Relationship between Historiography and Hagiography in Italy after the Council of Trent (1564–1742 ca.)’, in Nunc alia tempora, pp. 3–23 (pp. 3–5).

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60 The fundamental role of the Cardinal of Sora in fixing the basis of, and in promoting studies on, sacred archaeology inevitably also impacted upon the progress of knowledge about the Church’s architectural history: Carla Pisaniello, ‘Il significato storico del patrimonio artistico negli Annales’, in Baronio e l’arte, pp. 329–83 (pp. 351–83)

61 Thiery, ‘Il Medioevo nell’introduzione e nel proemio delle Vite’, pp. 359–61.

62 See Massimiliano Ghilardi, ‘Baronio e la “Roma sotterranea” tra pietà oratoriana e interessi gesuitici’, in Baronio e le sue fonti, pp. 435–87.

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65 A similar case in the region of Messina was the fortuitous discovery of the San Gaudioso Catacombs in Naples in 1577, celebrated with comparable enthusiasm. See Russo, Francesco, ‘La fortuna dei primitivi nella letteratura erudita campana. Napoli e Capua tra la fine del Cinquecento e la metà del Seicento’ (unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Naples Federico II, 2006)Google Scholar, chapter 5: ‘La riscoperta delle catacombe nell’erudizione storica napoletana prima delle esplorazioni di Carlo Celano.’

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72 Borea, Evelina, ‘Bellori e la documentazione figurativa fra l’antico il moderno e il contemporaneo’, in L’idea del bello: viaggio per Roma nel Seicento con Giovan Pietro Bellori, ed. Borea, Evelina and Gasparri, Carlo (Rome, 2000), pp. 14151 Google Scholar (p. 141). For Severano’s role in the edition of Bosio’s Roma Sotterranea, see Ghilardi, Gli arsenali della fede, pp. 48–53.

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74 See, respectively, Bosio, Roma sotterranea, I, lib. II, cap. XXII; lib. III, cap. XII, XXII; II, lib. IV, cap. IV, XIV.

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81 Papal brief, printed in the preliminary essay, dated 15 December 1616.

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84 This book was produced within the Jesuit milieu, as was made clear on the title page. This book also benefited from Jesuit patronage, as is indicated by the Jesuit Bernardino Stefonio’s epigram (Paolo de Angelis, Basilica Sanctx Marix Maioris, p. 4).

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86 ‘Et hoc pacto ubi ex historia lectione mens rei naturam conceperit, etiam oculis per delineationem satisfiat, ac proinde magis intelligentia sit expleta, eædem delineationes iis deservient, qui vel architecturam profitentur, vel in illa se oblectant, atque adeo reliquis artificibus, qui in lapidibus et picturis se exercent, cum talis basilicæ moles principes et praeteritarum ætatum, atque præsentis artifices recognoscat.’ Paolo de Angelis, Basilica Sanctæ Mariæ Maioris, ‘Lectori’, p. 2.

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98 Parry, The Trophies of Time, pp. 235–36.

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