Sanctity, Kingship and Succession: Art and Dynastic Politics in the Lower Church at Assisi

• Autores: Diana Norman
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 73, Nº. 3, 2010, págs. 297-334
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Three artworks by Simone Martini in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi, Italy, served as political statements to legitimize and celebrate Angevin dynastic claims in relation to the kingdoms of Naples and Hungary. Part of the imagery in the frescoes in the Chapel of Saint Martin, the figurative stained-glass window in the Chapel of Saint Louis of Toulouse, and the frescoed altarpiece of the Virgin and Christ Child with Saints in the north transept celebrates the chapels' patron Cardinal Gentile da Montefiore, whose important diplomatic mission as papal legate to Hungary in 1307 led to the successful establishment of Angevin prince Carobert—the grandson of Charles II, King of Naples, and his wife, Queen Mary of Hungary—to the Hungarian throne. At the same time, the presence of Angevin dynastic symbolism provides circumstantial evidence to the fact that it represented the preoccupations and interests of Queen Mary, whose significant role in all three commissions seems highly probable.