In the Counter Reformation, art and architecture are often attributed a central role in such a process of persuasion. Recent historical studies, however, ...
Continue Reading →This new volume opens up our understanding of the design, production and market for Biblical prints and illustrated Bible images in 16th century ...
Continue Reading →Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, ...
Continue Reading →This book brings together for the first time detailed analyses of Tridentine liturgical reform, Counter-Reformation sanctity and the late Renaissance ‘revolution’ in historical ...
Continue Reading →After 1500, as Catholic Europe fragmented into warring sects, evidence of a pagan past came newly into view, and travelers to distant places ...
Continue Reading →Historians generally recognize that the architectural patronage of Carlo Borromeo (1538-1584) provided important examples of Counter- Reformation architecture, and crucial models and criteria ...
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