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Detail Cingulum des Modells Papst Julius II. Foto: Robert Schittko

Pope, Power, Rope: Why Julius II Wore a Symbol of Poverty

An iconographic detail between asceticism, symbolic politics, and staging a liturgical vestment, one can see a simple, multi-stranded rope around the waist of a sculpture that represents Pope Julius II.But…

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