
Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome
The Sistine and Pauline Chapels in S. Maria Maggiore
Steven F. Ostrow(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 29. March 1996
Book
Hardback
411 pages
978-0-521-47031-5 (ISBN)
Description
Unprecedented in their scale, richness of decoration and multiple functions, the Sistine and Pauline Chapels represent two of the most complex public monuments built in the papal capital during the Counter-Reformation period. Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome offers an interdisciplinary study of the chapels, providing an interpretive reading of their artistic programs as an expression of their patrons' personal spirituality and of the larger institutional concerns of the papacy as it confronted the Protestant challenge. Viewed within their religious, political, and social contexts, the historical meaning of the chapels is explored as a means to advance our understanding of the ways in which the post-Tridentine Church enlisted the visual arts to communicate and advance its mission.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 Plates, color; 160 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 261 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
1476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-47031-5 (9780521470315)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
1. The Sistine chapel as Franciscan shrine; 2. The Sistine chapel's Fresco cycle; 3. The Pauline chapel's tabernacle of the virgin; 4. The Pauline chapel's Fresco cycle.