Editing Giordano Bruno (section)

===In art===

Following the 1870 [[Capture of Rome]] by the newly created [[Kingdom of Italy]] and the end of the Church's [[Temporal power (Papal)|temporal power]] over the city, the erection of a [[Statue of Giordano Bruno|monument to Bruno]] on the site of his execution became feasible. The monument was sharply opposed by the clerical party, but was finally erected by the Rome Municipality and inaugurated in 1889.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/findlen|title=A hungry mind: Giordano Bruno, philosopher and heretic|last=Findlen|first=Paula|publisher=[[The Nation]]|date=10 September 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204092400/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080929/findlen|archive-date=4 December 2008|quote="Campo de' Fiori was festooned with flags bearing Masonic symbols. Fiery speeches were made by politicians, scholars and atheists about the importance of commemorating Bruno as one of the most original and oppressed freethinkers of his age."|access-date=19 September 2008}}</ref>

A statue of a stretched human figure standing on its head, designed by [[Alexander Polzin]] and depicting Bruno's death at the stake, was placed in [[Potsdamer Platz]] station in [[Berlin]] on 2 March 2008.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Think About It |last=Bhattacharjee |first=Yudhiijit|date= 13 March 2008 |journal =Science |volume=319|issue=5869 |page=1467 |doi=10.1126/science.319.5869.1467b|s2cid=220094639 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bruno-denkmal.de/index.html|title=giordano bruno denkmal|first=Michael|last=Schmidt-Salomon|date=26 February 2008}}</ref>

Retrospective iconography of Bruno shows him with a Dominican [[cowl]] but not [[tonsure]]d. Edward Gosselin has suggested that it is likely Bruno kept his tonsure at least until 1579, and it is possible that he wore it again thereafter.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gosselin|first=Edward A.|year=1996|title=A Dominican Head in Layman's Garb? A Correction to the Scientific Iconography of Giordano Bruno|jstor=2544011|journal=The Sixteenth Century Journal|volume=27|issue=3|pages=673–678|doi=10.2307/2544011}}</ref>

An idealized animated version of Bruno appears in the first episode of the 2014 television series ''[[Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey]]''. In this depiction, Bruno is shown with a more modern look, without tonsure and wearing clerical robes and without his hood. ''Cosmos'' presents Bruno as an impoverished philosopher who was ultimately executed due to his refusal to recant his belief in other worlds, a portrayal that was criticized by some as simplistic or historically inaccurate.<ref name="Powell-2014">{{cite web |url=http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/03/10/cosmos-pick-wrong-hero/ |title=Did ''Cosmos'' Pick the Wrong Hero? |work=[[Discover (magazine)|Discover]] |publisher=[[Kalmbach Publishing]] |date=10 March 2014 |access-date=16 March 2014 |last=Powell |first=Corey S. |archive-date=16 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316084525/http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/outthere/2014/03/10/cosmos-pick-wrong-hero/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Rosenau|first=Josh|title=Why Did Cosmos Focus on Giordano Bruno?|url=http://ncse.com/blog/2014/03/why-did-cosmos-focus-giordano-bruno-0015457|publisher=National Center for Science Education|access-date=14 April 2014|date=18 March 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Sessions|first=David|title=How 'Cosmos' Bungles the History of Religion and Science|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/23/how-cosmos-bungles-the-history-of-religion-and-science.html|access-date=8 May 2014|newspaper=[[The Daily Beast]]|date=3 March 2014}}</ref> Corey S. Powell, of ''Discover'' magazine, says of Bruno, "A major reason he moved around so much is that he was argumentative, sarcastic, and drawn to controversy&nbsp;... He was a brilliant, complicated, difficult man.<ref name="Powell-2014"/>