Altarpieces and their viewers in the churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni.9780754661795 Altarpieces and their viewers in the churches of Rome The Churches of Rome are more than 900 in numbers. Ancient churches The first churches of Rome originated by the places where the Christians met, and are divided into three classes:
Jones, Pamela M. Ashgate Publishing Co. 2008 360 pages $99.95 Hardcover Visual culture in early modernity N7952 Jones (art history, University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. , Boston) has selected five Roman altarpieces painted from 1595-1625 and studied them exhaustively ex·haus·tive adj. 1. Treating all parts or aspects without omission; thorough: an exhaustive study. 2. Tending to exhaust. in a brilliant example of interdisciplinary in·ter·dis·ci·pli·nar·y adj. Of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines that are usually considered distinct. interdisciplinary Adjective scholarship. Rather than focus on the paintings as art, she looks at them as a form of communication to the viewer. Using contemporary commentaries, broadsheets, sermons, liturgy, popular drama, legal documents--anything that reflects a culture, she has pieced together an image of how these altarpieces were received by the Catholics of Rome of the counter-Reformation. She takes into account the purpose of the churches and the congregation. Parallel photos of the altarpieces, first as close ups and then in the context of the church, stress the difference between seeing art in a vacuum and as a part of daily life. The book has several color plates as well as black and white. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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