Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-39902-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1134 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 is a collection of studies variously exploring the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences. The volume’s transatlantic framework moves from The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy to Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and the Philippines, and centers on visual culture as a means to explore how emotions differ in their local and global “contexts” amidst the many shifts occurring c. 1450–1800. These themes are examined through the lens of art informed by religious ideas, especially Catholicism, with each essay probing how religiously inflected art stimulated, molded, and encoded emotions.

Contributors: Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Alison C. Fleming, Natalia Keller, Walter S. Melion, Olaya Sanfuentes, Patricia Simons, Dario Velandia Onofre, and Charles M. Rosenberg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Heather

Kilroy-Ewbank, Lauren G

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World

Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Heather Graham

PART 1: Jesuits and the Visual Language of Emotions

1 The Emotions of Ignatius of Loyola and the Mental Pictures of the Spiritual Exercises

Alison C. Fleming

2 Allegory and Affective Experience in Thomas Sailly, S.J.’s Thesaurus precum et exercitiorum spiritualium of 1609

Walter S. Melion

3 O Tristissimum Spectaculum: Affective Responses to a Passional Iconography of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Dario Velandia Onofre

PART 2: Gendered Emotions

4 A Mother’s Wise and Prudent Grief: Reading Raphael’s Baglioni Entombment through the History of Emotions

Heather Graham

5 To Weep with Mary and Mourn for Christ: Luis de Morales and the Facilitation of Emotional Communities in Badajoz, Spain

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank

PART 3: Emotional Communities and the Christ Child

6 “Kiss the Feet of the Infant Jesus”: The Emotional Efficacy of Early Christ Child Sculptures in Europe and Beyond

Patricia Simons

7 The Vocabulary of Tenderness: Maternal Feelings towards the Christ Child among Spanish American Nuns

Natalia Keller and Olaya Sanfuentes

PART 4: Emotions Transformed

8 “The Kernel and Soul of Art”: Emotions in Rembrandt’s Religious Etchings

Charles M. Rosenberg

9 A Fly in Milk: Fear and Black (In)visibility in New Spanish Painting

Elena FitzPatrick Sifford

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Heather Graham, Ph.D. (2010 University of California, Los Angeles), is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She is editor of Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018).

Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, Ph.D. (2009 University of California, Los Angeles), is Dean of Content and Strategy, Smarthistory, specializing in Ibero-American Art. She is author of Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain (Brill, 2018).