Sacred Spain
Subtitle: art and belief in the Spanish world
By: edited by Ronda Kasl ; Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos ... [et al.].
Contributors: Kasl, Ronda.; Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Publisher: Indianapolis Museum of Art; Distributed by Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Indianapolis; New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780300154719
Subjects: Indianapolis Museum of Art -- Exhibitions; Art and religion -- Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Art and religion -- Latin America -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Art and society -- Latin America -- History -- 17th century -- Exhibitions; Christian art and symbolism -- Modern period, 1500-
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "The art of Spain and Spanish America during the 17th century is overwhelmingly religious - it was intended to arouse wonder, devotion, and identification. Its forms and meanings are inextricably linked to the beliefs and religious practices of the people for whom it was made. In this groundbreaking book, scholars of art and religion look at new ways to understand the reception of use of these images in the practice of belief. As a result, the book argues for a fundamental reappraisal of the cultural role of the Church based on an analysis of the specific devotional and ritual contexts of Spanish art. Handsomely illustrated essays discuss paintings, polychrome sculptures, metalwork, and books. They call attention to the paradoxical nature of the most characteristic visual forms of Spanish Catholicism: material richness and external display as expressions of internal spirituality, strict doctrinal orthodoxy accompanied by artistic expression of surprising unconventionality, the calculated social projection of new devotional themes, and the divergence of popular religious practices from officially prescribed ones."--Jacket.
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World, October 11, 2009-January 3, 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Image and Counter-Reformation in Spain and Spanish America / Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos; title: The holy depicting the holy: social and aesthetic issues / Javier Portús; title: The image and its maker: the problem of authorship in relation to miraculous images in Spanish America / Luisa Elena Alcalá; title: Images as beings in early modern Spain / William A. Christian, Jr.; title: "The authority of sacred paintbrushes": representing medieval sainthood in the early modern period / María Cruz de Carlos Varona; title: The theopolitical visualization of the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception: intentionality and socialization of images / Jaime Cuadriello; title: Delightful adornments and pious recreation: living with images in the seventeenth century / Ronda Kasl; title: Catalogue of works.