16-NEW In Pursuit of Fame: Art and Patronage in Baroque Rome
On campus
Course 16 – Summer School on Campus
Monday 6 – Friday 10 July 2026
Dr Giulia Martina Weston
£695
Course Description
This course explores afresh Roman Baroque art, questioning its conception and historical significance and exploring its patronage and blossoming art market. Our investigation takes its lead in the year 1600, a crucial turning point in the Roman careers of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Annibale Carracci.
In Counter-Reformed Rome, popes and cardinals emerged as the most prominent and desirable patrons, as especially revealed by the diverse yet complimentary careers of Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.
By means of simultaneously looking at patronage and collecting trends and artists’ own self-promotional strategies, discussions will centre on the Roman production of superb men and women painters (such as Artemisia Gentilleschi, Pietro da Cortona, Nicolas Poussin and Giovanna Garzoni).
Furthermore, close encounters with paintings and drawings held at The National Gallery, The British Museum and The Courtauld Print Room will cast brighter light on the notions of ‘genius’ and artistic ingenuity in the age of the Baroque. Our artists’ search for fame will be ultimately understood in the broader context of today’s rediscoveries and contemporary art market.
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Lecturer's Biography
Dr Giulia Martina Weston is Director of the Athenaeum Comelianum de Litteris et Artibus in Pisa. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld, where she has been Associate Lecturer since 2016, and is Consultant Lecturer at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Giulia’s publications include the monograph Niccolò Tornioli (1606-1651). Art and Patronage in Baroque Rome (2016) and the co-edited volumes I Pittori del Dissenso (2014) and ‘A tale of two cities’: Rome and Siena in the Early Modern Period (2020). She is presently working on a book on Salvator Rosa’s afterlife in Britain. She curated the exhibitions The Universe on Paper (2022), and Legacies and Visions. From Comel to Karshan (2024), both at Fondazione Comel in Pisa.