Peter Paul Rubens and the Counter-Reformation Crisis of the Beati moderni
Title | Peter Paul Rubens and the Counter-Reformation Crisis of the Beati moderni PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth S. Noyes |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 348 |
Release | 2017-09-18 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351613200 |
Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of increased strictures and censorship that developed after the Council of Trent with respect to legal canonization procedures and cultic devotion to the saints. Ruth Noyes focuses particularly on how the new regulations pertained to the creation of emerging cults of those not yet canonized, the so-called Beati moderni, such as Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola, and Filippo Neri, founder of the Oratorians. Centrally involved in the book is the question of the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens. The Congregation rejected his first altarpiece because it too specifically identified Filippo Neri as a cult figure to be venerated (before his actual canonization) and thus was caught up in the politics of cult formation and the papacy’s desire to control such pre-canonization cults. The book demonstrates that Rubens' second altarpiece, although less overtly depicting Neri as a saint, was if anything more radical in the claims it made for him. Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni offers the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their respective would-be saints, and the controversy they ignited across Church hierarchies. It is also the first work to examine provocative Philippine imagery and demonstrate how its bold promotion specifically triggered the first wave of curial censure in 1602.
Rubens and the Counter Reformation
Title | Rubens and the Counter Reformation PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas L. Glen |
Publisher | Garland Publishing |
Total Pages | 424 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church
Title | St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Muller |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 657 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004311882 |
St. Jacob’s is the only church to survive intact from Antwerp’s Counter Reformation (1585-1794). Jeffrey Muller wreathes together the testimony of masterpieces and archives in Rubens’s parish church to reconstruct art’s integral role in religion and the transformation of society.
The Catholic Rubens
Title | The Catholic Rubens PDF eBook |
Author | Willibald Sauerlander |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2014-04-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1606062689 |
The art of Rubens is rooted in an era darkened by the long shadow of devastating wars between Protestants and Catholics. In the wake of this profound schism, the Catholic Church decided to cease using force to propagate the faith. Like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) sought to persuade his spectators to return to the true faith through the beauty of his art. While Rubens is praised for the “baroque passion” in his depictions of cruelty and sensuous abandon, nowhere did he kindle such emotional fire as in his religious subjects. Their color, warmth, and majesty—but also their turmoil and lamentation—were calculated to arouse devout and ethical emotions. This fresh consideration of the images of saints and martyrs Rubens created for the churches of Flanders and the Holy Roman Empire offers a masterly demonstration of Rubens’s achievements, liberating their message from the secular misunderstandings of the postreligious age and showing them in their intended light.
The Matter of Piety
Title | The Matter of Piety PDF eBook |
Author | Ruben Suykerbuyk |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 2020-07-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004433104 |
The Matter of Piety provides the first in-depth study of Zoutleeuw’s exceptionally well-preserved pilgrimage church in a comparative perspective, and revaluates religious art and material culture in Netherlandish piety from the late Middle Ages through the crisis of iconoclasm and the Reformation to Catholic restoration. Analyzing the changing functions, outlooks, and meanings of devotional objects – monumental sacrament houses, cult statues and altarpieces, and small votive offerings or relics – Ruben Suykerbuyk revises dominant narratives about Catholic culture and patronage in the Low Countries. Rather than being a paralyzing force, the Reformation incited engaged counterinitiatives, and the vitality of late medieval devotion served as the fertile ground from which the Counter-Reformation organically grew under Protestant impulses.
Rethinking Europe
Title | Rethinking Europe PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2019-07-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900440192X |
Rethinking Europe offers a selection of essays that reevaluate the Thirty Years’ War by contextualizing it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of war in the early modern periods.
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
Title | Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Sammut |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 556 |
Release | 2023-05-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9004276386 |
This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within the artist’s lifetime, the church and monastery were completely rebuilt, creating one of the most spectacular sacred spaces in Northern Europe. In this richly illustrated book, Adam Sammut reconceptualises early modern churches as theatres of political economy, advancing an original approach to cultural production in a time of war. Using methodologies at the cutting edge of the humanities, the place of St Paul’s is restored to the crux of Antwerp’s commercial, civic and religious life.