The Journey to Rome of Luis de Oviedo, Agent and Collector in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/chmo.70016
Keywords: agents, purity of blood, collections, Luis Tristán, Carlo Saraceni, Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, Toledo, Rome
Agencies: Este trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto del European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant financiado por el European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Grant Agreement 680192: SACRIMA “The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe” (IP: Chiara Franceschini, LMU). La investigación conducente a este trabajo ha sido posible gracias a una beca Salvador de Madariaga en el European University Institute de Florencia, concedida por el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte.

Abstract

This article unearths unpublished archival sources to reconstruct the Roman sojourn of Luis de Oviedo (ca. 1585-1624), one of the most significant non-aristocratic collectors in early seventeenth-century Spain. Rejected from the cathedral chapter of Toledo because of his alleged converso lineage, the clergyman spent over four years negotiating his purity of blood in Rome. There, he established a solid diplomatic and artistic network that included ambassadors, apostolic nuncios and painters such as Luis Tristán and Carlo Saraceni. Taking the itineraries of Luis de Oviedo as the point of departure, this article offers a new perspective on the connections between political representation and cultural brokerage between Toledo, Rome and Madrid during the reign of Philip III.

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Published
2020-06-30
How to Cite
Cavero de Carondelet, C. (2020). The Journey to Rome of Luis de Oviedo, Agent and Collector in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain. Cuadernos de Historia Moderna, 45(1), 55-79. https://doi.org/10.5209/chmo.70016
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Vol. 45 No. 1 (2020)
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Estudios

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