Piers Baker‐Bates
Biographic Data
| ID | 6336097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piers Baker‐Bates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piers |
| FAMILY NAME | Baker‐Bates |
| SIGNATURE | BATES P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9676-4528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Los almirantes de Castilla en el siglo xvii
Raffaello e l’antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi
Journal Article Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi Get access Alessandro Zuccariand Costanza Barbieri(eds.), Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi. Rome, Bardi Edizioni, 2023. isbn978-8-82-181237-8. 700 pp., 52 b. & w. illus., 354 col. illus. €35. Piers Baker-Bates Piers Baker-Bates UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collec…
All roads lead from Rome
This article discusses the transcultural career of one particular Spanish ecclesiastic, the Palencian, Francisco de Reynoso (1534–1601). Reynoso is a far more significant historical and cultural figure than has previously been thought, although never the subject of a holistic study. He began his ecclesiastical life as major domo and secretary of Pope Pius V and ended it as Bishop of Córdoba. Through a novel and detailed analysis of Reynoso's care…
Constructing Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo's heyday in Rome coincided with that of Pietro Aretino, and they benefitted there from the same patrons, first Agostino Chigi and then Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici. Both men flourished especially, in the brief 4 years of the pontificate of Giulio, between his election as Pope Clement VII and the traumatic Sack of 1527, although Aretino had already had to leave the city in 1525. Aretino is now most famous as the friend and supp…
Arte e lettere a Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento
The history of collecting in early modern Naples is a subject that had been too often ignored until a spate of recent exhibitions and related publications. Even the otherwise comprehensive edited collection A Companion to Early Modern Naples (2013) had little to say about the nobility and their collecting practices. Nonetheless, in the early modern period collectors in Naples were as active as those in other Italian states, if not more so. Accord…
Rome
Venezia e Parigi 1600–1700. La pintura veneziana e la Francia
Laura de Fuccia’s publication should be of interest to all readers of this journal. It makes an important contribution to the story of the collecting of Venetian painting in the seventeenth century, in particular, through its extensive appendix of both letters and extracts from no fewer than fifty-nine inventories which together occupy almost a third of the text. These are significant since, while the French had already shown an interest in acqui…
Establishing Spanish Cultural Identities at Rome (1516–1598)
This article builds on the developing interest in the growth in number and influence of the Spanish community at Rome through the course of the sixteenth century: this research has so far focused particularly on the role of the national churches. My article will now deepen and broaden this research through enhancing our understanding of the significant role of a unified Spanish cultural identity, as expressed through works of material culture, in…
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Despite its importance for the sixteenth century, the place of Latin American material culture of the colonial period in Early Modern European collecting has only recently come to form a significant part of studies of this phenomenon. Lia Markey’s new book will prove a further important resource and corrective for scholarship as it forms a bridge between traditional Italo-centric studies of the Renaissance and those of the New World, the like of …
R ome, sacred city
Le ‘Magnificenze’ di Agostino Chigi. Collezioni e Passioni Antiquarie nella Villa Farnesina
This handsome volume fills a long-felt want: it is extraordinary that there has been no book-length study of any aspect of that seminal figure of High Renaissance Rome, the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi (1466–1520), since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Cugnoni that was published in 1878. It is appropriate too that it has been published by the Accademia dei Lincei as they are the custodians of the most tangible remains of Agostino’s legacy. That …
The ‘Cloister Life’ of the Emperor Charles V
In this article I consider the brief retirement of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in the Hieronymite monastery of Yuste, the paintings with which he surrounded himself, and how these have been understood by later scholars. While the Hieronymite Order was unique to Iberia, and Yuste was sited in a remote part of Spain, elements of Charles’s living quarters may be connected to his childhood in Flanders. Focusing on the paintings of Titian and Michel …
Beyond Rome
The question of diplomatic gifts has become increasingly center stage in studies of Renaissance art. Their importance has not, however, been considered before in relation to the career of Sebastiano del Piombo at Rome. From the very beginning of his time in the city, however, Sebastiano began to paint works of art that were intended as diplomatic gifts. The two major works examined in this light will be the Visitation commissioned, most likely, b…
An Ardent Patron. Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his Antiquarian and Artistic Circle
In terms of seventeenth-century collecting, this book shines light on one of the most significant, if most neglected, figures of mid seventeenth-century Rome, Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620-77). Massimo remains most familiar to a British audience through his striking portrait by Velazquez, now at Kingston Lacy, which illustrates the jacket of this book. Massimo’s contemporary importance, though highlighted by Francis Haskell in his Patrons and Pa…
El Esplendor del Renacimiento en Aragon (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 15 Jun–20 September 2009; Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. 21 October 2009–24 January 2010; Museo de Zaragoza; 17 February–2…
Sebastiano del Piombo 1485–1547
Between Italy and Spain
High Renaissance Rome has been envisioned as hermetic – or at least as being influential only in the Italian peninsula, until the traumatic effects of the Sack of 1527 dispersed throughout Europe the community of artists gathered there. In contrast to this traditionally Italo‐centric view, the export trade in artistic ideas, if not in physical objects, was flourishing throughout the period 1492–1534. Given Rome's position as the diplomatic centre…
Rome Scholarships
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Beyond Rome
The question of diplomatic gifts has become increasingly center stage in studies of Renaissance art. Their importance has not, however, been considered before in relation to the career of Sebastiano del Piombo at Rome. From the very beginning of his time in the city, however, Sebastiano began to paint works of art that were intended as diplomatic gifts. The two major works examined in this light will be the Visitation commissioned, most likely, b…
Rome Scholarships
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Between Italy and Spain
High Renaissance Rome has been envisioned as hermetic – or at least as being influential only in the Italian peninsula, until the traumatic effects of the Sack of 1527 dispersed throughout Europe the community of artists gathered there. In contrast to this traditionally Italo‐centric view, the export trade in artistic ideas, if not in physical objects, was flourishing throughout the period 1492–1534. Given Rome's position as the diplomatic centre…
Sebastiano del Piombo 1485–1547
El Esplendor del Renacimiento en Aragon (Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 15 Jun–20 September 2009; Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia. 21 October 2009–24 January 2010; Museo de Zaragoza; 17 February–2…
An Ardent Patron. Cardinal Camillo Massimo and his Antiquarian and Artistic Circle
In terms of seventeenth-century collecting, this book shines light on one of the most significant, if most neglected, figures of mid seventeenth-century Rome, Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620-77). Massimo remains most familiar to a British audience through his striking portrait by Velazquez, now at Kingston Lacy, which illustrates the jacket of this book. Massimo’s contemporary importance, though highlighted by Francis Haskell in his Patrons and Pa…
The ‘Cloister Life’ of the Emperor Charles V
In this article I consider the brief retirement of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in the Hieronymite monastery of Yuste, the paintings with which he surrounded himself, and how these have been understood by later scholars. While the Hieronymite Order was unique to Iberia, and Yuste was sited in a remote part of Spain, elements of Charles’s living quarters may be connected to his childhood in Flanders. Focusing on the paintings of Titian and Michel …
Beyond Rome
The question of diplomatic gifts has become increasingly center stage in studies of Renaissance art. Their importance has not, however, been considered before in relation to the career of Sebastiano del Piombo at Rome. From the very beginning of his time in the city, however, Sebastiano began to paint works of art that were intended as diplomatic gifts. The two major works examined in this light will be the Visitation commissioned, most likely, b…
Le ‘Magnificenze’ di Agostino Chigi. Collezioni e Passioni Antiquarie nella Villa Farnesina
This handsome volume fills a long-felt want: it is extraordinary that there has been no book-length study of any aspect of that seminal figure of High Renaissance Rome, the Sienese banker Agostino Chigi (1466–1520), since the pioneering work of Giuseppe Cugnoni that was published in 1878. It is appropriate too that it has been published by the Accademia dei Lincei as they are the custodians of the most tangible remains of Agostino’s legacy. That …
R ome, sacred city
Establishing Spanish Cultural Identities at Rome (1516–1598)
This article builds on the developing interest in the growth in number and influence of the Spanish community at Rome through the course of the sixteenth century: this research has so far focused particularly on the role of the national churches. My article will now deepen and broaden this research through enhancing our understanding of the significant role of a unified Spanish cultural identity, as expressed through works of material culture, in…
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Despite its importance for the sixteenth century, the place of Latin American material culture of the colonial period in Early Modern European collecting has only recently come to form a significant part of studies of this phenomenon. Lia Markey’s new book will prove a further important resource and corrective for scholarship as it forms a bridge between traditional Italo-centric studies of the Renaissance and those of the New World, the like of …
Venezia e Parigi 1600–1700. La pintura veneziana e la Francia
Laura de Fuccia’s publication should be of interest to all readers of this journal. It makes an important contribution to the story of the collecting of Venetian painting in the seventeenth century, in particular, through its extensive appendix of both letters and extracts from no fewer than fifty-nine inventories which together occupy almost a third of the text. These are significant since, while the French had already shown an interest in acqui…
Rome
Arte e lettere a Napoli tra Cinque e Seicento
The history of collecting in early modern Naples is a subject that had been too often ignored until a spate of recent exhibitions and related publications. Even the otherwise comprehensive edited collection A Companion to Early Modern Naples (2013) had little to say about the nobility and their collecting practices. Nonetheless, in the early modern period collectors in Naples were as active as those in other Italian states, if not more so. Accord…
Constructing Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastiano del Piombo's heyday in Rome coincided with that of Pietro Aretino, and they benefitted there from the same patrons, first Agostino Chigi and then Cardinal Giulio de’ Medici. Both men flourished especially, in the brief 4 years of the pontificate of Giulio, between his election as Pope Clement VII and the traumatic Sack of 1527, although Aretino had already had to leave the city in 1525. Aretino is now most famous as the friend and supp…
Raffaello e l’antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi
Journal Article Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi Get access Alessandro Zuccariand Costanza Barbieri(eds.), Raffaello e l'antico nella villa di Agostino Chigi. Rome, Bardi Edizioni, 2023. isbn978-8-82-181237-8. 700 pp., 52 b. & w. illus., 354 col. illus. €35. Piers Baker-Bates Piers Baker-Bates UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collec…
All roads lead from Rome
This article discusses the transcultural career of one particular Spanish ecclesiastic, the Palencian, Francisco de Reynoso (1534–1601). Reynoso is a far more significant historical and cultural figure than has previously been thought, although never the subject of a holistic study. He began his ecclesiastical life as major domo and secretary of Pope Pius V and ended it as Bishop of Córdoba. Through a novel and detailed analysis of Reynoso's care…
Los almirantes de Castilla en el siglo xvii
Art (16 works) · Art history (14 works) · History (11 works) · Humanities (11 works) · History (9 works) · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (9 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 works) · Historical Art and Architecture Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works)