Peter Paul Rubens and the Counter-Reformation Crisis of the Beati moderni
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altarpiece controversy in early modern Europe
altarpiece paintings
Archivio Della Congregazione
art and politics
art and religion
art history
Author_Ruth S. Noyes
Baroque
Beati Moderni
Beato Padre
Biblioteca Vallicelliana
canonisation politics
canonization
Cardinal Alessandro De
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Catholic iconography
censorship
Chiesa Nuova
Christianity
Congregazione Dei
Congregazione Dei Riti
Council of Trent
Counter-Reformation imagery
Cristoforo Roncalli
cults
curial censure
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Europe
Filippo Neri
Flemish
Francis Xavier
Gratiarum Actio
High Altarpiece
Historia Sacra
Ignatius Loyola
Jesuit sainthood
Jesuits
Luca Ciamberlano
Madonna Della Vallicella
Mario Setter
Mattheus Greuter
Nereo Ed Achilleo
Oratorian Founder
Oratorian history
Oratorians
Philippine imagery
Philippine Transept Chapel
post-Tridentine art
saints
Santissimo Sacramento
Spiritual Martyrdom
Transept Chapel
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367735760
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni takes up the question of the issues involved in the formation of recent saints - or Beati moderni (modern Blesseds) as they were called - by the Jesuits and Oratorians in the new environment of increased strictures and censorship that developed after the Council of Trent with respect to legal canonization procedures and cultic devotion to the saints. Ruth Noyes focuses particularly on how the new regulations pertained to the creation of emerging cults of those not yet canonized, the so-called Beati moderni, such as Jesuit founders Francis Xavier and Ignatius Loyola, and Filippo Neri, founder of the Oratorians. Centrally involved in the book is the question of the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens. The Congregation rejected his first altarpiece because it too specifically identified Filippo Neri as a cult figure to be venerated (before his actual canonization) and thus was caught up in the politics of cult formation and the papacy’s desire to control such pre-canonization cults. The book demonstrates that Rubens' second altarpiece, although less overtly depicting Neri as a saint, was if anything more radical in the claims it made for him. Peter Paul Rubens and the Crisis of the Beati Moderni offers the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their respective would-be saints, and the controversy they ignited across Church hierarchies. It is also the first work to examine provocative Philippine imagery and demonstrate how its bold promotion specifically triggered the first wave of curial censure in 1602.
Ruth S. Noyes is Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Wesleyan University, USA.
