The Painted Image as Paper Propaganda in Pope Boniface VIII's Struggle Against Philip the Fair and the Colonna
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Carr, Susannah Virginia
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Giotto, 1266?-1337
Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303
Philip IV, King of France, 1268-1314
Stefaneschi, Jacopo, -1343
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Thus, it seems possible that the Lateran frescoes and the Stefaneschi Altarpiece functioned together as part of a single propagandistic campaign. Their iconographic programs certainly seem complementary. In commissioning these two paintings, the patrons may well have been simultaneously advertising the legality of universal papal authority and waging a vendetta of propaganda against the Colonna. Both churchmen and kinsmen, Pope Boniface VIII and Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi may well have sought to restore the family honor, as well as that of the papacy, through the persuasive power of the painted image. [From Conclusion]