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Article: Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome: Barberini Patronage Under Urban VIII.
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By Frederick Hammond. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. [xxiv, 369 p. ISBN 0-300-05528-5. $40.00.]
Pope Urban VIII (r. 1623-1644), born Maffeo Barberini, was the longest reigning pope of the seventeenth century. He was also one of the century's great patrons, and he and his nephews, through their patronage of artists such as Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, helped shape the artistic style of Rome (Francis Haskell, Patrons and Painters: Art and Society in Baroque Italy [New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980], 61). In this book, Frederick Hammond examines the Barberini family's musical patronage, approaching the task using the method of historical anthropology ...