Zusammenfassung / Abstract
“The prestige of Santa Maria in Camposanto Teutonico in the 17th century: Cult, art and written language between identity and internationalism” – This article investigates how the Archconfraternity of Santa Maria in Camposanto Teutonico enhanced its prestige in 17th-century Rome. Archival records show that emerging artists and craftsmen were involved in this process: such as painter Flaminio Allegrini, silversmiths Samuele Jacomini and Urbano Bartalesi, and stuccoist Giovanni Maria Sorisi. The positive reputation of the Archconfraternity was also shaped by the miraculous soil of its cemetery and its charitable and liturgical activities. As a result, its members tried to emphasise the distinct “ultramontane” identity of their sodality by preserving their late-Gothic Monstrance and creating frames in the style of the “Flemish Primitives” for the canvases in the presbytery. Handwritten documents by artists and professionals like Jacob De Hase, Louis Cousin, Matthäus Greuter, Albert Clouwet, Luca di Luca Cavalas, and Gerardo Meysz further show that the confraternity’s cultural strategies were articulated and supported by a literate and socially integrated membership