The word made image : religion, art, and architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500-1600.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Series:

Fenway Court ; 0430-3091 28.

Fenway Court, 0430-3091 ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and religion--Spain--16th century.

Art and religion.

Art and religion--Latin America--16th century.

Architecture and religion--Spain--16th century.

Architecture and religion.

Architecture and religion--Latin America--16th century.

Christianity and art--Catholic Church--Spain--16th century.

Christianity and art.

Christianity and art--Catholic Church--Latin America--16th century.

Christianity and art--Catholic Church.

Latin America.

Spain.

Physical Description:

126 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Religion, art, and architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500-1600

Place of Publication:

Boston : Published by the Trustees of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, [1998]

Summary:

Seven experts explore some of the dynamics of religious faith and power--two of the great preoccupations of 16th-century Spain--and expressed in its art and architecture.

Contents:

The word made image : religion, art, and architecture in Spain and Spanish America, 1500-1600 / Jonathan Brown

Prescott's paradigm : a new look at a Bostonian's image of sixteenth-century Spain / Richard L. Kagan

Image and devotion in late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Spanish painting / Lynette M.F. Bosch

El Greco's altarpieces for the Chapel of Saint Joseph : devotion, politics, and artistic innovation in Counter-Reformation Toledo / Richard G. Mann

Body and soul in the Basilica of the Escorial / Catherine Wilkinson Zerner

Representations of conversion : sixteenth-century architecture in New Spain / Clara Bargellini

Art in a missionary context : images from Europe and the Andes in the church of Andahuaylillas near Cuzco / Sabine MacCormack.

Notes:

"The essays in this publication were originally presented at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as ... the Museum's fifth annual interdisciplinary symposium, which was held in 1996 ..."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0964847574

9780964847576

OCLC:

40188541