Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
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Catholic image
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- ISBN 9781666905861
- Weight: 748g
- Dimensions: 157 x 237mm
- Publication Date: 16 Feb 2023
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate the cult of miraculous images, saints, and local Catholic customs in the Central European region, where a tradition of religious dissent went back to the legendary Hussites of the 15th century. Jesuit art is seen as resulting from the transfer, local adaptation, and visualization of ideas about image theology, the order's global mission, its self-promotion, and the construction of the religious past. Examining the architecture, statues, images, murals, and decorative programs of Jesuit complexes and other visual media (devotional prints, medieval images), the essays here demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety as they grew into one of the most successful agents of Catholic Reform in the Bohemian kingdom.
Katerina Hornícková is senior researcher and assistant professor of art history at Palacký University Olomouc.
Michal Šronek is professor in the Department of Art History and deputy director of the Institute of Art and Culture at the University of South Bohemia Ceské Budejovice.
