The poetic innutrition of artworks according to Balbinus’ Verisimilia (Prague, 1666)

Smeesters, Aline
(2023) A Jesuit Aesthetic? Thinking the sensible and the practice of art in the early modern Society of Jesus — Location: Charenton (Paris) (30.November.2023)

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(en) In the chapter of his Verisimilia humaniorum disciplinarum (Prague, 1666) devoted to poetry, the Czech Jesuit Bohuslaus Balbinus (1621-1688) gives evidence of the advice he used to give his students and apprentice poets: that they should imbue their minds deeply with images of the works of great painters, sculptors, architects or artists that they had the opportunity to contemplate. This paper looks in greater depth at the uses recommended by Balbinus for these memorised works of art, uses that concern on the one hand stage practice in the colleges, and on the other literary and poetic descriptions of people and places.
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Smeesters, A. (2023). The poetic innutrition of artworks according to Balbinus’ Verisimilia (Prague, 1666). A Jesuit Aesthetic? Thinking the sensible and the practice of art in the early modern Society of Jesus, Charenton (Paris). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/23551