Editing Pope Clement VII (section)

==== The Clementine Style ====
Italian Renaissance artistic trends from 1523 to 1527 are sometimes called the "Clementine style", and notable for their technical virtuosity.<ref>{{Cite book |last1= Reiss|first1= Sheryl E.|editor1-first= Jill|editor1-last=Burke|title= Rethinking the High Renaissance: The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome, "Pope Clement VII and the Decorum of Medieval Art"|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj0rDwAAQBAJ&q=rethinking+the+high+renaissance+jill+burke&pg=PR4|access-date= 29 September 2017|year= 2012|orig-year=2012 |publisher= Ashgate Publishing Company|location= Burlington, VT|language=en|isbn= 978-1409425588|page=289|chapter=12}}</ref> In 1527, the Sack of Rome "put a brutal end to an artistic golden age, the Clementine style that had developed in Rome since the coronation of the Medici Pope".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ehne.fr/en/encyclopedia/themes/arts-in-europe/migration-and-artistic-identities/sack-rome-1527-triumph-mannerism-in-europe|title=Sack of Rome (1527): the Triumph of Mannerism in Europe|website=Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe}}</ref> [[André Chastel]] describes the artists who worked in the Clementine style as [[Parmigianino]], [[Rosso Fiorentino]], Sebastiano del Piombo, Benvenuto Cellini, [[Marcantonio Raimondi]], and numerous associates of Raphael: [[Giulio Romano (painter)|Giulio Romano]], [[Giovanni da Udine]]; [[Perino del Vaga]]; and [[Polidoro da Caravaggio]].<ref name="auto5">{{cite book|last=Chastel|first=André|title=The Sack of Rome|year=1983|publisher=Princeton University Press|location=Princeton|isbn=978-0691099477}}</ref> During the Sack, several of these artists were either killed, made prisoner, or took part in the fighting.<ref name="auto5"/>