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The Sensuous in the Counter-Reformation Church

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Editors:
Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia
Tracy E. Cooper, Temple University, Philadelphia

Marcia B. Hall, Tracy E. Cooper, John W. O'Malley, Bette Talvacchia, Robert Gaston, Maria Loh, Stuart Lingo, Opher Mansour, Peter Lukehart, Richard Scofield, Costanza Barbieri, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Meredith Gill, Amy Powell

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Date Published: July 2013
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format: Hardback
isbn: 9781107013230

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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, and the invocation of the five senses to incite devotion became a hotly contested topic. The Protestants 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 receiving the Word of God. After much debate, the Church concluded that the senses are necessary to appreciate the sublime, and that they derive from the Holy Spirit. As part of its attempt to win back the faithful, the Church embraced the sensuous and promoted the use of images, relics, liturgy, processions, music, and theater as important parts of religious experience.
- Reassessment of the Counter-Reformation in art and architectural history and theory in Italy and the North
- The role of the senses provides a common thread to the papers
- Wide cross-discipline appeal; for art historians, historians and religious studies, while interest in the senses as both a method and subject of study are at the forefront of a number of other disciplines, including anthropology, sociology and philosophy
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"One of the strengths of this tightly conceived collection of essays is the assessment of the impact on the image discourse of the Tridentine decrees on images, the genesis of which is retraced, drawing upon recently published documents."
Evonne Levy, Renaissance Quarterly

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- Date Published: July 2013
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107013230
- length: 356 pages
- dimensions: 260 x 185 x 10 mm
- weight: 0.93kg
- contains: 76 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Marcia B. Hall
2. The sensuous: recent research Tracy E. Cooper
3. Trent, sacred images, and Catholics' senses of the sensuous John W. O'Malley
4. The world made flesh: spiritual subjects and carnal depictions in Renaissance art Bette Talvacchia
5. How words control images: the rhetoric of decorum in Counter-Reformation Italy Robert Gaston
6. Custodia degli occhi: discipline and desire in post-Tridentine Italian art Maria Loh
7. Raffaelle Borghini and the corpus of Florentine art in an age of reform Stuart Lingo
8. Censure and censorship in Rome ca.1600: visitation of Clement VIII and the visual arts Opher Mansour
9. Painting virtuously: the Counter-Reform and the reform of artists' education in Rome between guild and academy Peter Lukehart
10. Carlo Borromeo and the dangers of lay women in church Richard Scofield
11. 'To be in heaven': Saint Filippo Neri between aesthetic emotion and mystical ecstasy Costanza Barbieri
12. Rebuilding faith through art: Christoph Schwarz's altarpiece for the new Jesuit school in Munich Jeffrey Chipps Smith
13. 'Until shadows disperse': Augustine's twilight Meredith Gill
14. A machine for souls: allegory before and after Trent Amy Powell.
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Editors
Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia
Marcia B. Hall is Professor of Italian Renaissance Art History and Director of Graduate Studies at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is the author and editor of several books, including The Sacred Image in the Age of Art: Titian, Tintoretto, Barocci, El Greco, Caravaggio; After Raphael; and Renovation and Counter Reformation: Vasari and Duke Cosimo in Santa Maria Novella and Santa Croce, 1564–77.
Tracy E. Cooper, Temple University, Philadelphia
Tracy E. Cooper is Professor of Art History at Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is the author of Renaissance, and her book, Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic, received the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Prize from the Renaissance Society of America as well as a Special Mention for the Premio Salimbeni. She is the recipient of numerous fellowships including, most recently, ones from the Renaissance Society of America and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
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Marcia B. Hall, Tracy E. Cooper, John W. O'Malley, Bette Talvacchia, Robert Gaston, Maria Loh, Stuart Lingo, Opher Mansour, Peter Lukehart, Richard Scofield, Costanza Barbieri, Jeffrey Chipps Smith, Meredith Gill, Amy Powell