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The Sensuous in the Counter-reformation Church
ISBN: 9781107013230 | 1107013232
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 7/31/2013
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This book examines the promotion of the sensuous as part of religious experience in the Roman Catholic Church of the early modern period. During the Counter-Reformation, every aspect of religious and devotional practice was reviewed, including the role of art and architecture, while the invocation of the five senses to incite devotion became a hotly contested topic. The Protestants had condemned the material cult of veneration of relics and images, rejecting the importance of emotion and the senses and instead promoting the power of reason in r... MORE
| Introduction | |
| The sensuous: recent research | |
| Trent, sacred images, and Catholics' senses of the sensuous | |
| The world made flesh: spiritual subjects and carnal depictions in Renaissance art | |
| How words control images: the rhetoric of decorum in Counter-Reformation Italy | |
| Custodia degli occhi: discipline and desire in post-Tridentine Italian art | |
| Raffaelle Borghini and the corpus of Flo... MORE | |
| Censure and censorship in Rome ca.1600: visitation of Clement VIII and the visual arts | |
| Painting virtuously: the Counter-Reform and the reform of artists' education in Rome between guild and academy | |
| Carlo Borromeo and the dangers of lay women in church | |
| 'To be in heaven': Saint Filippo Neri between aesthetic emotion and mystical ecstasy | |
| Rebuilding faith through art: Christoph Schwarz's altarpiece for the new Jesuit school in Munich | |
| 'Until shadows disperse': Augustine's twilight | |
| A machine for souls: allegory before and after Trent | |
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