Sensuous Worship
Subtitle: Jesuits and the Art of the Early Catholic Reformation in Germany
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: November 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780691090726
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600; Religious subjects depicted in art; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; History; Counter-Reformation in art; Art & Art Instruction; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Religion; Germany; Jesuit architecture; Christianity - History - Catholic; European; Art / History / General; Art and Architecture; European History; Christianity - Catholic; Jesuit art
Description: "When the Jesuits entered Germany in the 1540s, the Protestant Reformation was on the verge of obliterating a Catholic Church already in tatters. Yet the seemingly imminent collapse never happened, and Catholicism recovered dramatically. This extensively illustrated book explores a key reason why German Catholicism survived and flourished.

It provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Jesuits' poorly understood but remarkable revitalization of German religious art and culture - an accomplishment that would guide the direction of both religious life and subsequent German Baroque art."--BOOK JACKET.