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Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
Missionizing through the Arts
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Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
Missionizing through the Arts
About this book
This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate the cult of miraculous images, saints, and local Catholic customs in the Central European region, where a tradition of religious dissent went back to the legendary Hussites of the 15th century. Jesuit art is seen as resulting from the transfer, local adaptation, and visualization of ideas about image theology, the order's global mission, its self-promotion, and the construction of the religious past. Examining the architecture, statues, images, murals, and decorative programs of Jesuit complexes and other visual media (devotional prints, medieval images), the essays here demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety as they grew into one of the most successful agents of Catholic Reform in the Bohemian kingdom.
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Yes, you can access Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729 by Katerina Hornícková,Michal Šronek in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & History of Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Introduction
- Timeline
- Chapter 1: The Church that Žižka Destroyed: The First Jesuit Churches in the Czech Lands
- Chapter 2: Marian Columns from Rome to Central Europe: The Transfer of Symbolic Triumph
- Chapter 3: Devotional Image Series in Jesuit Missions: On the Early Modern Multiplication of the Image
- Chapter 4: A Unique Sign of True Faith: Medieval Marian Images and the Jesuit Construction of the Past
- Chapter 5: Salus Populi Romani: The Roman Palladium of the Jesuit Church in Brno
- Chapter 6: Jesuit Saints in the Czech Lands: Cultic Staging of Religious Images in Jesuit Churches
- Chapter 7: From Visible to Invisible: Teaching Catholic Dogma in the Jesuit Church and Corpus Christi Chapel in Olomouc
- Chapter 8: Rivalry and Inspiration: The Jesuits and Other Religious Orders in the Czech Lands after 1620
- Index
- About the Editors and Contributors