Images of power: the political representation in the Renaissance and the portrait of cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo by Tiziano in the MASP

• Grant number: 18/07981-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2018
• End date: August 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - Modern and Contemporary History
• Principal Investigator: Luciano Migliaccio
• Grantee: Leila Soares Rodrigues Campos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (FAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to analyze under a new light a picture painted by Tiziano Vecellio in 1552, belonging to the Art Museum of São Paulo. The work represents the Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo (1512-1567), Archbishop-prince in the city of Trento, and host of the famous ecumenical Council, happening among 1545 and 1563, that adopted the name of that city. Through the iconographic and iconological analysis of the work, using new documental sources, and also the study of the relevant relations of the Cardinal Madruzzo in the field of politics, diplomacy and culture, the present project intends to contribute to better understand the social function of the painting of portrait as mean of advertisement and affirmation of the individual in the European political context of that time.