Jesuit art and Czech lands, 1556-1729
| Titel: | Jesuit art and Czech lands, 1556-1729 : missionizing through the arts / edited by Kateřina Horníčková and Michal Šroněk ; [Translations: Markéta Hanelová, Hana Logan, David Livingstone] |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Lanham; Boulder; New York; London : Lexington Books, [2023] |
| Umfang: | xlix, 378 Seiten : Illustrationen, Karten ; 23.5 cm x 15.5 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: Jesuit art and Czech lands, 1556-1729. - Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
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| ISBN: | 9781666905861 ; 1666905860 ; 9781666905878 |
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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.
