Author: Amanda Wunder
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
Baroque Seville
Author: Amanda Wunder
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271079436
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
The Publications of the Harleian Society
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Dean and Chapter of Wells ...
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Bath and Wells (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Category : Bath and Wells (Diocese)
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley: Parochial and ecclesiastical history
Author: George Alfred Carthew
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Category : Brisley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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Category : Brisley (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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The Hundred of Launditch and Deanery of Brisley, in the County of Norfolk. Evidences and Topographical Notes ...
Author: George Alfred Carthew
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Great Plague
Author: A. Lloyd Moote
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Yet somehow the city and its residents continued to function and carry on the activities of daily life."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801884934
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Yet somehow the city and its residents continued to function and carry on the activities of daily life."
Goya and the Mystery of Reading
Author: Luis Martín-Estudillo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826505341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) lived through an era of profound societal change. One of the transformations that he engaged passionately was the unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available. He documented and questioned this reading revolution in some of his most captivating paintings, prints, and drawings. Goya and the Mystery of Reading explores the critical impact this transition had on the work of an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to see it anew—to read it. Goya's creations offer a sustained reflection on the implications of reading, which he depicted as an ambiguous, often mysterious activity: one which could lead to knowledge or ecstasy, to self-fulfillment or self-destruction, to piety or perdition. At the same time, he used reading to elicit new possibilities of interpretation. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual, and artistic underpinnings of reading as one of the pillars of his art. This book is the recipient of the 2023 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826505341
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Spanish artist Francisco de Goya (1746–1828) lived through an era of profound societal change. One of the transformations that he engaged passionately was the unprecedented growth both in the number of readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available. He documented and questioned this reading revolution in some of his most captivating paintings, prints, and drawings. Goya and the Mystery of Reading explores the critical impact this transition had on the work of an artist who aimed not to copy the world around him, but to see it anew—to read it. Goya's creations offer a sustained reflection on the implications of reading, which he depicted as an ambiguous, often mysterious activity: one which could lead to knowledge or ecstasy, to self-fulfillment or self-destruction, to piety or perdition. At the same time, he used reading to elicit new possibilities of interpretation. This book reveals for the first time the historical, intellectual, and artistic underpinnings of reading as one of the pillars of his art. This book is the recipient of the 2023 Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of art or medicine.
Obituary Prior to 1800
Author: Sir William Musgrave
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Reports
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1152
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