St. Jacob's Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens's Parish Church

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31186-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 253/13, 632 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Of more than forty churches that fortified Antwerp as the bulwark of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, only St. Jacob’s stands now with its art and archives intact. Parish church of the city’s elite, it is filled with masterpieces, including the altarpiece that Rubens painted for his own burial chapel. Works of architecture, painting, sculpture, and hundreds of sacred objects, documented by the archives, enable a reconstruction of the integral role that art played in the transformation of a whole society over the span of two centuries, from 1585 to the 1790s. It is a history of real people and organizations, who used art for religion, politics, and social purpose, joined together in a church that embodied a diverse community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of tables

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1: St. Jacob’s Parish and Construction of the Church: 1491-1780
Chapter 2: Ornament for the Church: 1585-1656

Chapter 3: Circa 1660: Crisis and Ornament:

The Creation of a New Interior for the Parish Church

Chapter 4: Sacraments in the Parish

Chapter 5: The Blessed Sacrament Chapel and the Marriage Chapel

Chapter 6: The Lady Chapel in Search of an Image

Chapter 7: St. Jacob's New Collegiate Chapter of Canons and Their Choir

Chapter 8: Private Chapels in the Church

Chapter 9: St. Jacob’s Counter Reformation Confraternities

Chapter 10: Death in the Church

Chapter 11: Church Against State in the Time of Enlightenment and Revolution

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Documentation of Private Chapels in St. Jacob's

Appendix 2: Foundation, Membership, and Location of Brotherhoods at St. Jacob’s in Chronological Order

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey Muller, Ph.D. (1977), Yale University, is Professor of the History of Art at Brown University. His writings on early modern art include Rubens’s Collection in History (2004) and Jesuit Uses of Art in the Province of Flanders (2015).