Filarete's "Hilaritas": claiming authorship and status on the doors of St. Peter's

• Autores: Robert Glass
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 94, Nº 4, 2012, págs. 548-571
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Filarete placed an unprecedented number of self-portraits and signatures on the bronze doors he made for St. Peter’s in the Vatican, including an enigmatic relief on the reverse depicting himself and his assistants celebrating their achievement. Recent scholars have assumed that the representation conceals allegorical or esoteric meaning. However, careful examination of the relief’s iconography, inscriptions, physical characteristics, and relation to the larger project suggests that Filarete, in the hope of increasing his social standing at the papal court, conceived the work as a clever play on rituals used by the contemporary elite to express status and honor.