From Rome to eternity : : Catholicism and the arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650 / / edited by Pamela M. Jones and Thomas Worcester.

• Superior document: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ; Volume 14
• TeilnehmendeR: Jones, Pamela M.,; Worcester, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston ;, Koln : : Brill,, [2002]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Cultures, beliefs, and traditions ; Volume 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

This book treats Rome, the arts and religious culture in Italy in the century or so after the Council of Trent. In that era, clerical bureaucrats may have sought to impose control and uniformity, but nine original essays in this volume demonstrate continuing vitality of a wide range of creative artistic production. The book is illustrated with more than 50 reproductions. Part I and II explore themes of Italian Artists as Saints and Sinners, and Arts of Sanctity, Suffering, and Sensuality in Italy. Part III, Italy and Beyond: Rome and Global Catholic Culture, acknowledges world-wide dimensions of early modern Catholicism. From Rome to Eternity elucidates the rich and multifaceted character of Catholicism in Italy, ca. 1550-1650. Papal Rome spoke, but even as Italian Catholics listened, they themselves also spoke, and wrote, sang, acted, painted. Contributors include: Michael A. Zampelli, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Fiora A. Bassanese, Peter Burke, James Clifton, Sheldon Grossman, Pamela Jones, Robert L. Kendrick, David M. Stone, and Thomas Worcester.

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.