From Rome to Eternity
Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650
Published on 19. February 2002
Book
Hardback
X, 278 pages
978-90-04-12469-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book treats Rome, the arts and religious culture in Italy in the century or so after the Council of Trent. In that era, clerical bureaucrats may have sought to impose control and uniformity, but nine original essays in this volume demonstrate continuing vitality of a wide range of creative artistic production. The book is illustrated with more than 50 reproductions.
Part I and II explore themes of Italian Artists as Saints and Sinners, and Arts of Sanctity, Suffering, and Sensuality in Italy. Part III, Italy and Beyond: Rome and Global Catholic Culture, acknowledges world-wide dimensions of early modern Catholicism.
From Rome to Eternity elucidates the rich and multifaceted character of Catholicism in Italy, ca. 1550-1650. Papal Rome spoke, but even as Italian Catholics listened, they themselves also spoke, and wrote, sang, acted, painted.
Contributors include: Michael A. Zampelli, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Fiora A. Bassanese, Peter Burke, James Clifton, Sheldon Grossman, Pamela Jones, Robert L. Kendrick, David M. Stone, and Thomas Worcester.
Part I and II explore themes of Italian Artists as Saints and Sinners, and Arts of Sanctity, Suffering, and Sensuality in Italy. Part III, Italy and Beyond: Rome and Global Catholic Culture, acknowledges world-wide dimensions of early modern Catholicism.
From Rome to Eternity elucidates the rich and multifaceted character of Catholicism in Italy, ca. 1550-1650. Papal Rome spoke, but even as Italian Catholics listened, they themselves also spoke, and wrote, sang, acted, painted.
Contributors include: Michael A. Zampelli, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Fiora A. Bassanese, Peter Burke, James Clifton, Sheldon Grossman, Pamela Jones, Robert L. Kendrick, David M. Stone, and Thomas Worcester.
Reviews / Votes
'...this wide-ranging collection of essays is certain to stimulate the thinking of scholars in a number of fields.'Steven F. Ostrow, CAA Reviews, 2004.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
49 Abb.
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
767 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-12469-1 (9789004124691)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Pamela M. Jones, Ph.D. (1985) in Art History, Brown University, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her publications, including Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana (Cambridge, 1993), focus on Italian art and Catholic culture.
Thomas Worcester, Ph.D. (1994) in History, Cambridge University, is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications on early modern religious culture include Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin, 1997).
Thomas Worcester, Ph.D. (1994) in History, Cambridge University, is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications on early modern religious culture include Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin, 1997).
Content
List of Contributors
Introduction, Thomas Worcester
PART ONE. ITALIAN ARTISTS AS SAINTS AND SINNERS
In Figura Diaboli: Self and Myth in Caravaggio's David and Goliath, David M. Stone
Veronica Franco's Poetics of Redemption, Fiora A. Bassanese
Giovan Battista Andreini's Maddalena of 1617: Staging the Redemption of the Theatrical Profession, Michael A. Zampelli
PART TWO. ARTS OF SANCTITY, SUFFERING, AND SENSUALITY IN ITALY
Female Saints in Early Modern Italian Chapbooks, ca. 1570-1670: Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, Pamela M. Jones
Martyrdom in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music, Robert L. Kendrick
'Being Lustful, He Would Delight in Her Beauty': Looking at Saint Agatha in Seventeenth-Century Italy, James Clifton
The Sovereignty of the Painted Image: Poetry and the Shroud of Turin, Sheldon Grossman
PART THREE. ITALY AND BEYOND: ROME AND GLOBAL CATHOLIC CULTURE
Creating a Global Artistic Language in Late Renaissance Rome: Artists in the Service of the Overseas Missions, 1542-1621, Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Rome as Center of Information and Communication for the Catholic World, 1550-1650, Peter Burke
Index
Introduction, Thomas Worcester
PART ONE. ITALIAN ARTISTS AS SAINTS AND SINNERS
In Figura Diaboli: Self and Myth in Caravaggio's David and Goliath, David M. Stone
Veronica Franco's Poetics of Redemption, Fiora A. Bassanese
Giovan Battista Andreini's Maddalena of 1617: Staging the Redemption of the Theatrical Profession, Michael A. Zampelli
PART TWO. ARTS OF SANCTITY, SUFFERING, AND SENSUALITY IN ITALY
Female Saints in Early Modern Italian Chapbooks, ca. 1570-1670: Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, Pamela M. Jones
Martyrdom in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music, Robert L. Kendrick
'Being Lustful, He Would Delight in Her Beauty': Looking at Saint Agatha in Seventeenth-Century Italy, James Clifton
The Sovereignty of the Painted Image: Poetry and the Shroud of Turin, Sheldon Grossman
PART THREE. ITALY AND BEYOND: ROME AND GLOBAL CATHOLIC CULTURE
Creating a Global Artistic Language in Late Renaissance Rome: Artists in the Service of the Overseas Missions, 1542-1621, Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Rome as Center of Information and Communication for the Catholic World, 1550-1650, Peter Burke
Index