Cabinet Barberini. L'artiste et l'Editeur : Après gravure sur bois illustrations par Francesco Del Tuppo (Italien, 1443/44-1501) , publié à Naples en 1485. Culture : L'Italien, Florence. Dimensions : 23 1/4 x 38 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (59,1 x 96,8 x 35,9 cm). Bouilloire : Galleria dei Lavori, Florence. Date : ca. 1606-23. 'La famille Barberini dans les seizième et dix-septième siècles présente un modèle virtuel de la famille romaine bien gérée. Les Barberini reconnaît que la façon de pouvoir et de richesse passe par l'Église et que la perpétuation de la famille était à la charge sur le mariage ; et ils ont en conséquence
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Barberini Cabinet. Artist and publisher: After woodcut illustrations by Francesco Del Tuppo (Italian, 1443/44-1501) , published in Naples in 1485. Culture: Italian, Florence. Dimensions: 23 1/4 x 38 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (59.1 x 96.8 x 35.9 cm). Maker: Galleria dei Lavori, Florence. Date: ca. 1606-23. "The Barberini family in the later sixteenth and seventeenth centuries presents a virtual paradigm of the well-managed Roman family. The Barberini recognized that the way to power and wealth lay through the Church and that the perpetuation of the family was dependent on marriage; and they accordingly consistently pursued both of those channels of family development. For several generations they were blessed with sufficient male offspring, and they managed this natural resource to the benefit of the family as a whole."[1] In line with this tradition, Maffeo (1568-1644), the second youngest of Antonio Barberini's six sons, left Florence in 1584, to take up residence and continue his education at the Collegio Romano in Rome as a protégé of his uncle Monsignor Francesco Barberini (1528-1600), the apostolic protonotary.[2] Maffeo later graduated from Pisa University as doctor of law. He returned to Rome in 1588-89 to embark on a meteoric ascent through the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Vatican. From 1604 to 1607 he was accredited as papal nuncio to Henry IV's court in Paris, following an initial legation to France in 1602. This first Bourbon king (r. 1589-1610) had married Maria de' Medici (1573-1642), who came from Florence, the town where Maffeo was born and most of his family still lived. In the culturally stimulating environment of Paris, Maffeo acquired a refined taste for the arts and enjoyed many luxuries that had previously been beyond his reach. It may have been in Paris, too, that he redesigned the Barberini coat of arms for his own use, changing the wasps into bees and adding the sun symbol and laurel leaves of Apollo, patron of poets.[3] After his appointment to t
