Jesuits and universities
Subtitle: artistic and ideological aspects of Baroque colleges of the Society of Jesus--examples from Genoa and Wrocław
By: edited by Giacomo Montanari, Arkadiusz Wojtyła, Małgorzata Wyrzykowska
Contributors: Wojtyla, Arkadiusz, editor
Series: Historia sztuki -- XXXIV; Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis -- no 3684; Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis -- no 3684.; Historia sztuki (Wrocław, Poland : 1992) -- 34.
Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wrocław
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9788322935101
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Baroque Art; Jesuit influences; Jesuit art; History; Jesuit universities and colleges; Jesuit architecture; Università di Genova; Uniwersytet Wrocławski
Notes: Essays translated from Italian and Polish.

Introduction by Giacomo Montanari, Arkadiusz Wojtyła, and Małgorzata Wyrzykowska.

Includes bibliographical references, index of historical figures, index of localities and buildings, and list of illustrations.

Essays translated from Italian and Polish into English.
Table of contents: title: Part one. The Jesuits and their college in Genoa. The Jesuit fathers in Genoa, their art and history : new research and a long tradition of study ; Giuseppe Castiglione in Genoa : the work of a Jesuit artist for the global culture of images during his Chinese mission / Lauro Magnani; title: Science and religion in the 17th century : the Jesuits between Genoa and Europe / Davide Arecco; title: The Seminary of St. Ignazio in Genoa : a building site between history, philology and traditional architectural techniques / Giovanni Paolo Rava; title: Docere, delectare, movere : from the library of the College of the Society of Jesus in Genoa to the iconographic interpretation of the great fresco painted by Gio. Andrea Carlone in the Salone degli Esercizi Letterari / Giocomo Montanari; title: The iconography of Saint Anne, mater Virginis, in the artistic patronage of the Jesuit order : the case of Genoa / Laura Stagno; title: Andrea Pozzo and Genoese altars : comparisons, exchanges and relations / Valentina Fiore; title: On the Church of Jesus in Lecce / Regina Poso.; title: Part two. The Jesuits and their college in Wrocław. Dynastic background to Jesuit academies in Central Europe / Andrzej Józef Baranowski; title: Remarks on the architecture of Jesuit colleges in the Bohemian province, particularly in Silesia / Dariusz Galewski; title: Die Kirche auf der kayserlichen Burg : some remarks on the architecture and ideological programme of the Church of the Most Sacred Name of Jesus in Wrocław / Arkadiusz Wojtyła; title: Some remarks on the links between rhetoric and Baroque art as evidenced by the decorations in the Church of the Most Sacred Name of Jesus in Wrocław / Anna Jezierska; title: Selected questions concerning the architecture of the main building of the University of Wrocław / Małgorzata Wyrzykowska; title: Sculpted furnishings of the Jesuit church and university in Wrocław : new findings and interpretations / Artur Kolbiarz, Michał Wardzyński; title: The personifications of the cardinal virtues from the portal of the University of Wrocław / Romuald Nowak; title: The Aula Leopoldina at the University of Wrocław as the temple of God's wisdom : notes on the iconographic program and its sources / Rafał Karlik, Andrzej Kozieł, Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska.