Contents: Introduction, Jill Burke and Michael Bury; Part 1 Finding Patronage in Early Modern Rome: Roma patria comune? Foreigners in early modern Rome, Irene Fosi; The bishop and the artist: the quest for patronage in high Renaissance Rome, Piers Baker Bates; Between Rome and Ferrara: the courtiers of the Este cardinals in the cinquecento, Guido Guerzoni. Part 2 Cardinals and their Worldly Goods: A cardinal in Rome: Ippoloto d'Este in 1560, Mary Hollingsworth; Patronage rivalries: cardinals Oduardo Farnese and Pietro Aldobrandini, Clare Robertson; Protector and protectorate: cardinal Antonio Barberini's art diplomacy for the French crown at the Papal court, Karin Wolfe. Part 3 Family Identity and the Papacy: Old nobility versus new: Colonna art patronage during the Barberini and Pamphilj pontificates (1623-1655), Christina Strunck; A taste for landscape: Innocent X and Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona, Susan Russell; Cardinal Camillo Massimo as art agent of the Altieri, Lisa Beaven. Part 4 The Papacy: Individual and Institution: 'Ruined, untended and derelict': 15th-century papal tombs in St Peter's, Carol M. Richardson; Prince and pontiff: secular and spiritual authority in Papal State portraiture between Raphael's Julius II and the portraits if Pius V and Clement VIII, Opher Mansour; Family and institutional identity: galleries of Barberini projects, Maarten Delbeke; Bibliography; Index.