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Three Popes and the Fountain in Memory: Shaping the Trevi for Performances of Power.
| العنوان: | Three Popes and the Fountain in Memory: Shaping the Trevi for Performances of Power. |
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| المؤلفون: | Krist, Pamela |
| المصدر: | Italian Studies; Nov2016, Vol. 71 Issue 4, p421-446, 26p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | FONTANA di Trevi (Rome, Italy), MEMORY -- Social aspects, HISTORY of the Papacy, POWER (Social sciences) -- Social aspects, PERFORMANCE -- Social aspects, ROMAN mythology, IMAGE -- Social aspects, WATER -- Social aspects, EIGHTEENTH century |
| مستخلص: | Why are images of the Trevi Fountain so potent and exploitable? Addressing this critically unexplored aspect, I draw on concepts from memory studies of shared and performative memory to reveal the shaping of the Fountain in eighteenth-century Rome as a powerful vehicle for prevailing ideologies, now masked by its many manifestations as a populist monument. First constructed as an ephemeral presence in elitist imagination to replace its medieval form, it slowly emerged as a showy edifice displaying potential for propaganda. I focus on the groups of fountain designers and their papal patrons who reconfigure water-associated myths in constructing the Fountain. It becomes a purveyor for their own and, unintentionally, future ideological discourses also assisted by its illusory design and gendered iconography. Sometimes the inventive practices of memory undermined official culture, and appropriating the Trevi uncovered ambiguities and new meanings generated during the production of self-serving papal pasts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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