29 juillet 2019
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Annalisa Albuzzi, « La barba di ambrogio », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.29322
First, the author presents theoretical and methodological presuppositions: it is necessary, especially for the iconography of the post-Tridentin period, to explain sample details and encoded representations. Thus, after having studied the cultural, pastoral and ecclesiological context, the author focuses on a detail: the presence or the absence of the beard in Ambrose’s portraits realised from the episcopate of Carlo Borromeo till that of his cousin Federico. This detail is very interesting to interpret the standards, the discipline and the relations between spiritual and temporal power, as well as the construction of models of holiness.