Eloquent Images

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-94-6270-327-8
Verlag: Leuven University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

The Christian image in the process of modern globalisation

Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and historical insights regarding the circulation of the image on the global scale of the Christianised world or the world in the process of being Christianised, from China to Iberia. Combining the contribution of historians and art historians, the authors highlight the points of intercultural encounter and tension around preaching, catechesis, devotional practices, and the propagandistic use of images.

Through its aesthetic and social study of the image, and by examining the inner and outer borders of Europe and the mission lands, Eloquent Images contributes significantly to the history of evangelisation, one of the major dynamics of the first European globalisation.

Contributors: Pierre-Antoine Fabre (EHESS, Paris), Clara Lieutaghi (EHESS Paris), Silvia Notarfonso (Università di Macerata), Silvia Mostaccio (UCLouvain), Mauro Salis (Università di Cagliari), Valentina Borniotto (Università di Genova), Gwladys Le Cuff (Paris-Sorbonne – EHESS Paris), Mauricio Oviedo Salazar (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Maria João Pereira Coutinho (IHA/FCSH/NOVA Lisbon), Sílvia Ferreira (IHA/FCSH/NOVA Lisbon), Paulo De Campos Pinto (Universidade Católica Portuguesa), Lorenzo Ratto (Università di Genova), Stephanie Porras (Tulane University), Arianna Magnani (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Michela Catto (Università di Torino), Federico Palomo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Roberto Ricci (Istituto storico italiano per l’età moderna e contemporanea, Roma), Francesco Sorce (independent scholar), Maria Vittoria Spissu (Università di Bologna).
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Capriotti, Giuseppe

Fabre, Pierre-Antoine

Pavone, Sabina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Fields and
frontiers of religious images: An introduction

Giuseppe Capriotti, Sabina Pavone, and Pierre-Antoine Fabre

PART 1.
CONVERTING THE IMAGES, CONVERTING BY THE IMAGES

Evangelicae
Historiae Imagines
as a paradigm of the Tridentine’s Image (16th–17th centuries)

Pierre-Antoine Fabre

The
transcultural power of image: Giulio Aleni’s Life of Christ, and its diffusion
between Europe and China

Arianna Magnani

Revealing
images of Blessed Rodolfo Acquaviva

Roberto Ricci

Production,
use and resemantisation of Marian images between evangelisation of mendicant
orders and political propaganda in Spanish Sardinia (16th–17th centuries)

Mauro Salis

Destroy to
replace: Evangelisation through images in missions in the East and West

Valentina Borniotto

Persuading
with baptismal and triumphant images: Emotional entanglements in the apologies
of conversion in the Early Modern Iberian World

Maria Vittoria Spissu

PART 2. PATHS OF DEVOTION

‘Reading
images instead of touching the divine’: When the word disembodies the figure

Clara Lieutaghi

Crucified
saints in the early seventeenth century: Models and devotional practices from
the orthodox to the liminal in Spanish Europe

Silvia Mostaccio

A
Protestant case of the presence of God: The heart as the material aspect of
divine experience and evangelisation in Jan Luyken’s Emblem XIV

Mauricio Oviedo Salazar

Enlightening
St. Ignatius through the flame of arts: A singular artistic and iconographic
programme in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora

Maria João Pereira Coutinho, Paulo Campos Pinto, Sílvia Ferreira

Splendori delle
tenebre: Nocturne paintings on stone in Verona in the age of Agostino Valier

Lorenzo Ratto

PART 3.
WAYS OF PROPAGANDA

Governing
angels, apocalyptic iconology, and imperialism: Reinterpreting the Apocalypsis
nova

Gwladys Le Cuff

Baptising
the Turks in Constantinople: “The Triumph of the Church” by Philippe Thomassin

Francesco Sorce

Religious
imagery, conflict and coexistence in the seventeenth-century Balkans

Silvia Notarfonso

Quis ut
Deus? Michael the
Archangel across the early modern Spanish empire

Stephanie Porras

Global
images for global worship: Narratives, paintings and engravings of the martyrs
of Japan in seventeenth-century Iberian worlds

Federico Palomo

Stars,
dragons and luminous crosses in the Chinese sky: The Jesuit mission’s connected
perspective on the supernatural in China (17th century)

Michela Catto

About the
authors

Plates

Über Autor(innen)

Capriotti, Giuseppe
Giuseppe Capriotti is professor in early modern art history at the University of Macerata.

Pavone, Sabina
Sabina Pavone is professor of early modern history and global history at the University of Macerata.

Fabre, Pierre-Antoine
Pierre-Antoine Fabre is professor at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and studies modern Catholicism and evangelization.