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Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556-1729: Missionizing through the Arts

Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556-1729: Missionizing through the Arts

Jakubec, Ondrej
Hornícková, Katerina
Sronek, Michal

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral European History

ISBN10: 1666905860
ISBN13: 9781666905861
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 16 2023
Pages: 428
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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