Celebrating Jesuit Saints: the transmission and diffusion of ornamental devices in the seventeenth century
(2014) 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America — Location: New York (27.March.2014)
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- From the seventeenth century onwards and this throughout the Catholic World, Jesuits celebrated new saints with splendour and inventiveness. These spectacles required an arsenal of apparati in which ornamentation played an essential role, aiming to act emotionally on the spectator and being at the heart of the religious experience. This paper will discuss this development and more specifically focus on the transmission of festive ornamental devices. Though the ornament is often considered as the most appropriate medium for spreading new forms and styles, relatively little attention has been given hitherto to the circulation of models during the seventeenth century and especially throughout the Spanish Realm. Focusing on the Southern Netherlands and based on a comparative study of Spanish and Italian visual and written documents, the diffusion of some selected ornamental and framing devices is explored. In particular, it will be stressed how models were converted and adapted to local traditions.
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Heering, C. (2014). Celebrating Jesuit Saints: the transmission and diffusion of ornamental devices in the seventeenth century. 60th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/56115