Chiara Franceschini is associate professor of Early Modern Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich. Her publications include Storia del limbo (2017) on images of limbo from Mantegna to Michelangelo as well as essays on the political use of antiquities and on family chapels in pre-modern Rome. She directs the ERC project SACRIMA on The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe on the interrelations between art and religion in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Europe. Steven F. Ostrow, a specialist in the art of Post-Tridentine Italy and Roman Baroque sculpture, is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (1996), and co-editor of and contributor to Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy (1998), Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays (2006), and Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture (2014). Patrizia Tosini teaches Early Modern Art History at the Third University of Rome. She has published several works on the figurative arts in the age of Counter-Reformation, among which a monograph on the painter Girolamo Muziano Dalla Maniera alla Natura (2008) and Immagini ritrovate. La decorazione di villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento (2015).

“This is undoubtedly a valuable publication with much to offer scholars of early modern Rome and of visual and material cultures of devotion more broadly.” -- Karen J. Lloyd, CAA Reviews

• 9 Chapels: An IntroductionChiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini16 Map of the Churches18 The Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello:Farnesian Devotion, Antiquarian Taste, and Municipal PridePatrizia Tosini40 Between all’Antica and Acheiropoieton:The Cappella Gregoriana in the Ekphrasesof Lorenzo Frizolio (1582) and Ascanio Valentino (1583)Fabio Barry64 Caetani’s Blood:Magnificence, Lineage, and Martyrdomin the Family Chapel of Santa PudenzianaEnrico Parlato88 “A Gem Set in Most Resplendent Gold”:Girolamo Rusticucci’s Confessio Chapel in Santa SusannaSteven F. Ostrow112 A Splendid Shrine for an Ugly Image:Visual Interactions in the Salviati Chapel at San Gregorio al CelioChiara Franceschini146 Carving Out Identity:The Boncompagni Family, Alessandro Algardi,and the Chapel in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in VallicellaGuendalina Serafinelli166 The Angelic Balustrade of the Spada Chapelin San Girolamo della CaritàLouise Rice190 The Arm Relic as Index of the Body:The Chapel of Francis Xavier in the GesùAlison C. Fleming and Stephanie C. Leone212 A Chapel in Dialogue:The Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del PopoloFabrizio Federici240 List of Abbreviations241 Bibliography262 Contributors264 Index of Names268 Index of Places271 Photo Credits

Chiara Franceschini is associate professor of Early Modern Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich. Her publications include Storia del limbo (2017) on images of limbo from Mantegna to Michelangelo as well as essays on the political use of antiquities and on family chapels in pre-modern Rome. She directs the ERC project SACRIMA on The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe on the interrelations between art and religion in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Europe. Steven F. Ostrow, a specialist in the art of Post-Tridentine Italy and Roman Baroque sculpture, is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (1996), and co-editor of and contributor to Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy (1998), Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays (2006), and Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture (2014). Patrizia Tosini teaches Early Modern Art History at the Third University of Rome. She has published several works on the figurative arts in the age of Counter-Reformation, among which a monograph on the painter Girolamo Muziano Dalla Maniera alla Natura (2008) and Immagini ritrovate. La decorazione di villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento (2015).

“This is undoubtedly a valuable publication with much to offer scholars of early modern Rome and of visual and material cultures of devotion more broadly.” -- Karen J. Lloyd, CAA Reviews

• 9 Chapels: An IntroductionChiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini16 Map of the Churches18 The Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello:Farnesian Devotion, Antiquarian Taste, and Municipal PridePatrizia Tosini40 Between all’Antica and Acheiropoieton:The Cappella Gregoriana in the Ekphrasesof Lorenzo Frizolio (1582) and Ascanio Valentino (1583)Fabio Barry64 Caetani’s Blood:Magnificence, Lineage, and Martyrdomin the Family Chapel of Santa PudenzianaEnrico Parlato88 “A Gem Set in Most Resplendent Gold”:Girolamo Rusticucci’s Confessio Chapel in Santa SusannaSteven F. Ostrow112 A Splendid Shrine for an Ugly Image:Visual Interactions in the Salviati Chapel at San Gregorio al CelioChiara Franceschini146 Carving Out Identity:The Boncompagni Family, Alessandro Algardi,and the Chapel in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in VallicellaGuendalina Serafinelli166 The Angelic Balustrade of the Spada Chapelin San Girolamo della CaritàLouise Rice190 The Arm Relic as Index of the Body:The Chapel of Francis Xavier in the GesùAlison C. Fleming and Stephanie C. Leone212 A Chapel in Dialogue:The Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del PopoloFabrizio Federici240 List of Abbreviations241 Bibliography262 Contributors264 Index of Names268 Index of Places271 Photo Credits

Chiara Franceschini is associate professor of Early Modern Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich. Her publications include Storia del limbo (2017) on images of limbo from Mantegna to Michelangelo as well as essays on the political use of antiquities and on family chapels in pre-modern Rome. She directs the ERC project SACRIMA on The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe on the interrelations between art and religion in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Europe. Steven F. Ostrow, a specialist in the art of Post-Tridentine Italy and Roman Baroque sculpture, is professor of art history at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome: The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore (1996), and co-editor of and contributor to Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy (1998), Bernini's Biographies: Critical Essays (2006), and Critical Perspectives on Roman Baroque Sculpture (2014). Patrizia Tosini teaches Early Modern Art History at the Third University of Rome. She has published several works on the figurative arts in the age of Counter-Reformation, among which a monograph on the painter Girolamo Muziano Dalla Maniera alla Natura (2008) and Immagini ritrovate. La decorazione di villa Peretti Montalto tra Cinque e Seicento (2015).

“This is undoubtedly a valuable publication with much to offer scholars of early modern Rome and of visual and material cultures of devotion more broadly.” -- Karen J. Lloyd, CAA Reviews

• 9 Chapels: An IntroductionChiara Franceschini, Steven F. Ostrow, and Patrizia Tosini16 Map of the Churches18 The Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello:Farnesian Devotion, Antiquarian Taste, and Municipal PridePatrizia Tosini40 Between all’Antica and Acheiropoieton:The Cappella Gregoriana in the Ekphrasesof Lorenzo Frizolio (1582) and Ascanio Valentino (1583)Fabio Barry64 Caetani’s Blood:Magnificence, Lineage, and Martyrdomin the Family Chapel of Santa PudenzianaEnrico Parlato88 “A Gem Set in Most Resplendent Gold”:Girolamo Rusticucci’s Confessio Chapel in Santa SusannaSteven F. Ostrow112 A Splendid Shrine for an Ugly Image:Visual Interactions in the Salviati Chapel at San Gregorio al CelioChiara Franceschini146 Carving Out Identity:The Boncompagni Family, Alessandro Algardi,and the Chapel in the Sacristy of Santa Maria in VallicellaGuendalina Serafinelli166 The Angelic Balustrade of the Spada Chapelin San Girolamo della CaritàLouise Rice190 The Arm Relic as Index of the Body:The Chapel of Francis Xavier in the GesùAlison C. Fleming and Stephanie C. Leone212 A Chapel in Dialogue:The Cybo Chapel in Santa Maria del PopoloFabrizio Federici240 List of Abbreviations241 Bibliography262 Contributors264 Index of Names268 Index of Places271 Photo Credits