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Overview"Addressing the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome, this book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jesuit foundations in the city during their first half-century of existence. The study treats some of the most crucial monuments of late Renaissance painting including the original decorations of the church of the Gesu and the Collegio Romano and the martyrdom frescoes at S. Stefano Rotondo. Based on new archival research from Rome, Florence, Parma and Perugia, Gauvin Alexander Bailey's study presents a revisionist treatment of Italian painting in the last four decades of the 16th-century, a critical transitional period between Renaissance and baroque. Bailey relates the Jesuit painting cycles to the great religious and intellectual climate of the period, isolates the new stylistic trends which appeared after the Council of Trent, and looks at the different ways in which artists met the challenges for devotional art made by the religious climate of the post-Tridentine period. Bailey also provides written reconstructions of the Jesuit churches of S. Tommaso di Canterbury, S. Saba and S. Apollinare and the original novitiate complex of S. Andrea al Quirinale, the site of the complex and original hospital decoration in late Renaissance Italy. Through these reconstructions, Bailey sheds light on such works as Louis Richeome's meditation manual on the paintings at S. Andrea, ""Le peinture spirituelle"", a lively and detailed treatise on late Renaissance art and, ultimately, Bailey provides a new understanding of the stylistic and iconographic strands which shortly afterward were woven together to form the Baroque." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gauvin Alexander BaileyPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 17.70cm , Height: 3.90cm , Length: 25.50cm Weight: 1.180kg ISBN: 9780802037213ISBN 10: 0802037216 Pages: 552 Publication Date: 13 December 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationGauvin Alexander Bailey is an associate Professor in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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