Imagery, spirituality and ideology in Baroque Spain and Latin America /
edited by Jeremy Roe and Marta Bustillo.
- Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 150 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-141) and index.
Introduction / Carla Rahn Phillips -- Francisco Suárez's Bienaventurada Virgen and the iconography of the Immaculate Conception / Mindy Nancarrow -- Envisioning the body politic : iconographies of Christian rulership / Ariadna García-Bryce -- Tito Yupanqui and the creation of the Virgin of Copacabana : instruments of conversion at Lake Titicaca / Vanessa K. Davidson -- Teresa of Ávila vs. the iconoclasts : convent art in support of a church in crisis / Christopher C. Wilson -- The episode of the Cristo de la Paciencia and its infuence on religious imagery in seventeenth-century Madrid / Marta Bustillo -- The painted face of the city : images of Corpus Christi in colonial Cuzco / Carolyn Dean -- Nature and beauty in Velázquez's representations of Christ / Jeremy Roe -- "Ante obitum mortuus, post obitum vivus" : visual representations of the body of Saint Francis of Assisi / María Cruz de Carlos Varona.
This volume offers a series of essays that explore the significance of visual imagery as a medium for the representation of spiritual and ideological concerns by the Catholic Church in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. Each of these essays provides a valuable contribution to established areas of research such as Velázquez studies, St. Teresa of Avila as spiritual exemplar for the Counter-Reformation in Spain, the iconography of St. Francis of Assisi, or the evolution of Peruvian Christian iconogr ...
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Christian art and symbolism--Spain--Modern period, 1500- Christian art and symbolism--Latin America. RELIGION--Christianity--General. Christian art and symbolism. Christian art and symbolism--Modern period. Pictures.