Global baroque: the world in Rome in the age of Bernini

Contents

Global Baroque. Rome, the visual arts, and the global world / Francesco Freddolini -- Baroque, gypsies, ambassadors, and parades. Roman scenes of global art / Franesca Cappelletti -- Rome in the age of early globalization: religion, politics and culture / Massimo Carlo Giannini -- Images of an exotic nature from distant lands / Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi -- The making of worlds in early modern Rome / Alexander Nagel -- Encounters and tensions with religious minorities in Rome: Muscovites, Jews, and Turks through the lens of Montaigne / Massimo Moretti -- Jacob Tubi, a Levantine Jew in Rome: a hypothesis about Cigoli's 'Ecce Homo' / Ettore Giovanatti -- Celebrating difference. Pope Paul V and Antonio Manuel Ne Vunda / Andreas Raub -- Works. Global Rome -- Africa, Egypt and the Antique -- Gian Lorenzo Bernini: 'The fountain of the four rivers', Africa, America -- The church and the world -- Nature and the expanding world -- Rome and global diplomacy -- Collecting the world -- The other in imagery and literature -- Rome as a crossroads of cultures -- Bibliography.