From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650
Biographical note
Pamela M. Jones, Ph.D. (1985) in Art History, Brown University, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her publications, including Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana (Cambridge, 1993), focus on Italian art and Catholic culture.
Thomas Worcester, Ph.D. (1994) in History, Cambridge University, is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications on early modern religious culture include Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin, 1997).
Thomas Worcester, Ph.D. (1994) in History, Cambridge University, is Associate Professor of History at the College of the Holy Cross. His publications on early modern religious culture include Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin, 1997).
Readership
All those interested in art history, church history, and cultural history of the early modern period, especially in Italy. Primarily intended for scholars, graduate students, and academic libraries.
Reviews
'...this wide-ranging collection of essays is certain to stimulate the thinking of scholars in a number of fields.'
Steven F. Ostrow, CAA Reviews, 2004.
Steven F. Ostrow, CAA Reviews, 2004.
Table of contents
List of Contributors
Introduction, Thomas Worcester
PART ONE. ITALIAN ARTISTS AS SAINTS AND SINNERS
In Figura Diaboli: Self and Myth in Caravaggio’s David and Goliath, David M. Stone
Veronica Franco’s Poetics of Redemption, Fiora A. Bassanese
Giovan Battista Andreini’s Maddalena of 1617: Staging the Redemption of the Theatrical Profession, Michael A. Zampelli
PART TWO. ARTS OF SANCTITY, SUFFERING, AND SENSUALITY IN ITALY
Female Saints in Early Modern Italian Chapbooks, ca. 1570–1670: Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, Pamela M. Jones
Martyrdom in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music, Robert L. Kendrick
‘Being Lustful, He Would Delight in Her Beauty’: Looking at Saint Agatha in Seventeenth-Century Italy, James Clifton
The Sovereignty of the Painted Image: Poetry and the Shroud of Turin, Sheldon Grossman
PART THREE. ITALY AND BEYOND: ROME AND GLOBAL CATHOLIC CULTURE
Creating a Global Artistic Language in Late Renaissance Rome: Artists in the Service of the Overseas Missions, 1542–1621, Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Rome as Center of Information and Communication for the Catholic World, 1550–1650, Peter Burke
Index
Introduction, Thomas Worcester
PART ONE. ITALIAN ARTISTS AS SAINTS AND SINNERS
In Figura Diaboli: Self and Myth in Caravaggio’s David and Goliath, David M. Stone
Veronica Franco’s Poetics of Redemption, Fiora A. Bassanese
Giovan Battista Andreini’s Maddalena of 1617: Staging the Redemption of the Theatrical Profession, Michael A. Zampelli
PART TWO. ARTS OF SANCTITY, SUFFERING, AND SENSUALITY IN ITALY
Female Saints in Early Modern Italian Chapbooks, ca. 1570–1670: Saint Catherine of Alexandria and Saint Catherine of Siena, Pamela M. Jones
Martyrdom in Seventeenth-Century Italian Music, Robert L. Kendrick
‘Being Lustful, He Would Delight in Her Beauty’: Looking at Saint Agatha in Seventeenth-Century Italy, James Clifton
The Sovereignty of the Painted Image: Poetry and the Shroud of Turin, Sheldon Grossman
PART THREE. ITALY AND BEYOND: ROME AND GLOBAL CATHOLIC CULTURE
Creating a Global Artistic Language in Late Renaissance Rome: Artists in the Service of the Overseas Missions, 1542–1621, Gauvin Alexander Bailey
Rome as Center of Information and Communication for the Catholic World, 1550–1650, Peter Burke
Index
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