Name: Imagery, Spirituality and Ideology in Baroque Spain and Latin America
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Imagery, Spirituality and Ideology in Baroque Spain and Latin America

Edited By: Marta Bustillo, Jeremy Roe

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These essays explore visual imagery as a medium for the Catholic Church's spiritual and ideological concerns in the Spanish Habsburg Empire. New sources reveal how art was used to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ spectators in cities from Cuzco to Madrid.

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…

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 iconography. A valuable contribution of all these essays is their discussion of new visual and textual sources which are revealing of the diverse modes of representation developed by the Church to ‘Delight, Move and Instruct’ the many and diverse spectators of its artistic message. Together these essays provide a range of critical perspectives on the complex cultural, political and spiritual context that shaped the evolution of Religious Art in cities as distant as Cuzco and Madrid.

Jeremy Roe is Research Fellow in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, where he works on the AHRC project ‘The Library of the Count-Duke of Olivares: a mirror of power, patronage, and Baroque culture in Golden Age Spain.’ He is also working on a number of Spanish Visual Arts projects, including a translation of the ‘Adiciones a algunas imágenes’ from Francisco Pacheco’s El Arte de la Pintura, which is to be published by St. Jospeh’s University Press.

Marta Bustillo is an independent art historian specializing in the political functions of religious art during the Spanish Golden Age. She is currently Visual Resources Librarian at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island.

Xavier Bray, Mari Cruz Carlos, Vanessa Davidson, Carolyn Dean, Ariadna Garcia-Bryce, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky, Ana María Laguna, Mindy Nancarrow, Carla Rahn Phillips, Jeremy Roe, Christopher Wilson, Marta Bustillo