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The Festa della Federazione and Visual Propaganda during the Roman Republic, 1798-1799: The Appropriation of Papal Symbols in the Urban Landscape
Catalano Rossi Danielli, Maria Aurelia
Catalano Rossi Danielli, Maria Aurelia
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The brief period of the Roman Republic (1798-1799) envisaged to revolutionize a centuries old city and state government dominated by the absolute power of the Roman Catholic Church into a democratic and secular state. Republican festivities were adopted in this period as propagandistic means to accomplish the new government’s mission to extend public consent as well as to mark a historical justification with Rome’s millenary past. In this thesis I would like to address the case study of two paintings of the Republican Festa della Federazione celebrated on March 20th, 1798 commemorating the Republic’s proclamation by the artist Felice Giani, which are now conserved at the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi. Although the two paintings are now looked uncritically by contemporary public and scholars, the paintings by Giani are instead fundamental in order to address important questions: are Republican festivities and the ephemeral stage sets erected in that period separate from the papal tradition of festivities in Rome? How was the event recorded and transcribed into visual representation? How is the representation of the event to be interpreted nowadays? What was the role of the artists and Academies both in the designing of the festivity and in the commemoration of the event? And finally, why are Republican festivities nowadays looked as separate elements from the history of festivities in Rome?
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Master of Arts in Art History -- John Cabot University, Spring 2022.
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2022
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Revolution (Rome, Italy : 1798-1799), Christian art and symbolism, Signs and symbols
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Catalano Rossi Danielli, Maria Aurelia. "The Festa della Federazione and Visual Propaganda during the Roman Republic (1798- 1799): The Appropriation of Papal Symbols in the Urban Landscape". Master's Thesis, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. 2022.
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