Papers by Filip Malesevic
Freiburger Geschichtsblätter, 101, 2024
Der Beitrag stellt das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Freiburger Stadtpfarrer Sebastian Werro u... more Der Beitrag stellt das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Freiburger Stadtpfarrer Sebastian Werro und der städtischen Obrigkeit im Zusammenhang mit der Verwaltung des Kapitels von St. Nikolaus dar. Auf der Grundlage der in Freiburger Archiven und Bibliotheken zu findenden Quellen wird Sebastian Werros kirchliche Laufbahn untersucht. Welche Konflikte ergaben sich zwischen Werro und der städtischen Obrigkeit im Kontext der katholischen Reform? Inwiefern war Werro an der Abfassung eines ersten Zeremonialbuchs für das Nikolausstift beteiligt? Entlang dieser Fragen werden neue Perspektiven auf das religiöse Leben in der Stadt und im Kanton Freiburg des späten 16. Jahrhunderts geöffnet.
Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science
Since Antiquity, libraries have constituted a vital and organic part of the overall organization ... more Since Antiquity, libraries have constituted a vital and organic part of the overall organization of an ecclesiastical or civic community. The accessibility and consultation of knowledge was at the forefront of early functioning societies. With the gradual dissolution of the Roman Empire, however, a substantial shift from pagan to Christian forms of socioeconomic as well as political circumstances occurred that prompted the establishment of collections of books which pertained to monastic communities. Until the recalibration of erudition through the first generation of scholars and erudite intellectuals, who sought a substantial reappropriation of Rome's antiquarian heritage in the later 14th century, these monastic libraries determined the pace of the progression of ecclesiastical as well as civic erudition. With the gradual formation of city-states and other forms of sovereign as well as self-governing communal governments, another paradigm in the evolution of libraries was introduced that would decisively delineate the features of the emerging 'Renaissance Library'. The following entry thus presents this development of libraries from the viewpoint of an entanglement between their institutional evolution and the respective actors engaged in the personnel of the administration and organization of book and manuscript collections from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 2024
In contrast to the original pictorial program that had been devised for the decoration of the Sal... more In contrast to the original pictorial program that had been devised for the decoration of the Sala Regia inside the Apostolic Palace under Pope Paul III Farnese, the decoration of the aula magna designed during Pius IV’s pontificate showed considerable differences, for the originally conceived frescoes were replaced by historical episodes from papal history and Church history. The new pictorial cycle demonstrated a division in wall compartments above the doors leading to the most important ceremonial interiors of the piano nobile inside the Apostolic Palace. At the same time, the new program envisoned also the decoration of those larger wall compartments between the respective doors, which showed monumental scenes in contrast to the sopraporte. Nevertheless, the pictorial program executed during Pius IV’s Medici pontificate inside the Sala Regia has so far received only little attention in respect to its relationship with Curial Ceremony. The following contribution thus aims at demonstrating how the narrow picture field on the northern wall beside the entrace to the Sala Ducale, showing an episode that the painter Giovanni Maria Zoppelli from Cremona had executed, strongly establishes a dependence of the overall pictorial program from the prescriptions of the Caeremoniale Romanae Curiae.
Encyclopedia of Libraries, Librarianship, and Information Science, 2024
The following entry lays out the development of the Vatican Library in the Early Modern period. I... more The following entry lays out the development of the Vatican Library in the Early Modern period. It aims at demonstrating how this particular space within the Apostolic Palace generated a culture of ecclesiastical erudition that is still vibrantly represented in today's institutional working practices. Glossary Librarian ("Bibliothecarius") An individual assigned with the administration of a library or a collection of books. Custodian A person, whose responsibilities are delineated in taking care of or protecting a library and its collection of books and manuscripts. Ecclesiastical Government The institutional formation of administering the Roman Church, dispensing Divine Grace and guaranteeing the salvific message as conveyed by the Holy Scriptures.
I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance
IN 1546 THE DUKE OF FLORENCE Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned the painter Jacopo Pontormo to deco... more IN 1546 THE DUKE OF FLORENCE Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned the painter Jacopo Pontormo to decorate Brunelleschi’s choir in the church of San Lorenzo. For the next decade, Pontormo worked on his fresco cycle that remained incomplete upon the painter’s death in 1557. Agnolo Bronzino eventually completed the choir, which was unveiled on July 23, 1558, but Pontormo had probably finished the upper zone of the choir in 1550, and he had also executed three large frescoes below the cornice with a Deluge and several sections of the Resurrection of the Dead. Bronzino then completed the remaining parts of Pontormo’s Resurrection by adding other scenes in the lower section. The finished decoration of the choir was unfortunately destroyed in the rebuilding of the church’s lateral walls in 1738, but the Florentine diarist Agostino Lapini immediately remarked after the choir’s public unveiling in 1558 that these scenes entailed several perplexities. Baccio Bandinelli went further when he accused Pontormo of having “offended the devotion of that church.”
De Medio Aevo
The following paper proposes an interpretation of the first pictorial program inside the Sistine ... more The following paper proposes an interpretation of the first pictorial program inside the Sistine Chapel on the basis of the development of Curial Ceremony. With the construction of a new chapel inside the Vatican Apostolic Palace, which effectively replaced the previous cappella magna, an ambitious program in stratifying the Caeremoniale Romanae Curiae according to Pope Sixtus IV’s administration of the Roman Church through the construction and affirmation of papal ecclesiastical supremacy.
De Medio Aevo, 2023
The following paper proposes an interpretation of the first pictorial program inside the Sistine ... more The following paper proposes an interpretation of the first pictorial program inside the Sistine Chapel on the basis
of the development of Curial Ceremony. With the construction of a new chapel inside the Vatican Apostolic Palace, which
effectively replaced the previous cappella magna, an ambitious program in stratifying the "Caeremoniale Romanae Curiae"
according to Pope Sixtus IV’s administration of the Roman Church through the construction and affirmation of papal
ecclesiastical supremacy.
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte, 2022
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks, 2022
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte, 2015
The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600, 2020
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 2020
This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the Augustin... more This book presents a critical edition of a collection of liturgical manuscripts that the Augustinian friar Onofrio Panvinio (1530–1568) assembled in the 1560s for the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese as well as for Hans Jakob Fugger in Augsburg. Onofrio Panvinio is primarily known for his antiquarian studies about ancient Rome and for his edition of Bartolomeo Platina’s Lives of the Popes. His preoccupation with the Roman rite, however, remains until today largely unnoticed by modern scholarship. This edition of Panvinio’s Vetusti aliquot rituales libri highlights his interests in the development of Roman liturgy during the last sessions of the Council of Trent (1545–1563) by presenting the various documentary as well as cultural layers of Panvinio’s collection of Roman ritual manuscripts.
IN 1546 THE DUKE OF FLORENCE Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned the painter Jacopo Pontormo to deco... more IN 1546 THE DUKE OF FLORENCE Cosimo I de’ Medici commissioned the painter Jacopo Pontormo to decorate Brunelleschi’s choir in the church of San Lorenzo. For the next decade, Pontormo worked on his fresco cycle that remained incomplete upon the painter’s death in 1557. Agnolo Bronzino eventually completed the choir, which was unveiled on July 23, 1558, but Pontormo had probably finished the upper zone of the choir in 1550, and he had also executed three large frescoes below the cornice with a Deluge and several sections of the Resurrection of the Dead. Bronzino then completed the remaining parts of Pontormo’s Resurrection by adding other scenes in the lower section. The finished decoration of the choir was unfortunately destroyed in the rebuilding of the church’s lateral walls in 1738, but the Florentine diarist Agostino Lapini immediately remarked after the choir’s public unveiling in 1558 that these scenes entailed several perplexities. Baccio Bandinelli went further when he accuse...
Römische Quartalschrift für christliche Altertumskunde und Kirchengeschichte, 2022
Since the reinstallation of Federico da Montefeltro's Studiolo from Gubbio in the Metropolitan Mu... more Since the reinstallation of Federico da Montefeltro's Studiolo from Gubbio in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, there is an increasing interest in the reconstruction of painted interiors. The pictorial program in Montefeltro's former study room can be reconstructed by comparatively including the manuscripts from the former court library in Urbino that are kept in the Biblioteca Vaticana. This collection of manuscripts was only completely transferred to the Vaticana's holdings in 1657 during Alexander VII's pontificate. Since then, these manuscripts have been kept in three registers and are known as "Codices Urbinates Latini." This article takes up this new methodological approach to the decoraiton of private libraries and uses it to reconstruct the first decoration campaigns in the reading room of the Biblioteca Vaticana. In this process, the activity of the workshop of the two brothers Domenico and Davide Ghirlandaio in Rome under Sixtus IV is illuminated.
With the discovery of the tombs of the first early Christian martyrs in 1578, the papacy and the ... more With the discovery of the tombs of the first early Christian martyrs in 1578, the papacy and the curia could not only sustain their claims for the primacy of Rome in theological matters based on the fact that it was the primary place of early Christian martyrdom, but now it became possible to support this claim with visual evidence. This evidentiary character of early Christian Martyrdom had significant consequences for the adoption and interpretation of the Roman liturgy, especially the veneration of saints that the Protestants so vehemently attempted to deny. This chapter explores the influence of this discovery in general but also in the context of an emergent scientific discourse at the Roman curia about celestial phenomena that received new impetus after the observation of a series of comets around the Jubilee Year of 1575, the interpretation of which would influence the pope’s decision to reform the Julian calendar. This reform would furthermore be adopted by the Oratorian—and...
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Papers by Filip Malesevic
of the development of Curial Ceremony. With the construction of a new chapel inside the Vatican Apostolic Palace, which
effectively replaced the previous cappella magna, an ambitious program in stratifying the "Caeremoniale Romanae Curiae"
according to Pope Sixtus IV’s administration of the Roman Church through the construction and affirmation of papal
ecclesiastical supremacy.
of the development of Curial Ceremony. With the construction of a new chapel inside the Vatican Apostolic Palace, which
effectively replaced the previous cappella magna, an ambitious program in stratifying the "Caeremoniale Romanae Curiae"
according to Pope Sixtus IV’s administration of the Roman Church through the construction and affirmation of papal
ecclesiastical supremacy.
The following edition of a previously unknown work by Panvinio, his Vetusti aliquot rituales libri, aims at bringing out for the first time in scholarship an ample and detailed study of Onofrio Panvinio’s preoccupations with Roman ritual and its various visible forms as manifested in the various celebrations by the Roman Curia during the second half of the sixteenth century. It considers the various manuscript versions of Panvinio’s treatise, which he composed for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese in 1564 and then also sent another version to Hans Jacob Fugger in Augsburg a year later. Furthermore, an extensive commentary also contextualizes Panvinio’s compilation of liturgical texts in relationship with his hitherto unedited correspondence with Hans Jacob Fugger.