Power and Religion in Baroque Rome Barberini Cultural Policies /
Peter Rietbergen.
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This study analyzes the ways in which a variety of cultural manifestations were the necessary preconditions for (religious) policy and power in the Rome of Urban VIII (1623-1644). Precisely their interaction created what we now call ‘Baroque Culture’.