Art and festivities in eighteenth-century Rome: letters from a Portuguese priest, 1721-22

"Manuel de Campos, a Jesuit priest from Lisbon, arrived in Rome in June 1721 as part of a Portuguese royal delegation to the papal court. In letters home over the following year he described the city's churches, their works of art and furnishings and the lavish temporary decorations made f...

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Published in:Burlington magazine 2018-05, Vol.160 (1382), p.387-393
Main Author: Vale, Teresa Leonor M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Campos, Manuel de (1680?-?)
Church buildings
Clergy
Festivals
Furniture
Letters
Religious art
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