The Power and the Glorification (Hardcover)

Language: English

Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 2013

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Hardcover. Focusing on a turbulent time in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, The Power and the Glorification considers how, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the papacy employed the visual arts to help reinforce Catholic power structures. All means of propaganda were deployed to counter the papacys eroding authority in the wake of the Great Schism of 1378 and in response to the upheaval surrounding the Protestant Reformation a century later. In the Vatican and elsewhere in Rome, extensive decorative cycles were commissioned to represent the strength of the church and historical justifications for its supreme authority. Replicating the contemporary viewers experience is central to De Jongs approach, and he encourages readers to consider the works through fifteenth- and sixteenth-century eyes. De Jong argues that most visitors would only have had a limited knowledge of the historical events represented in these works, and they would likely have accepted (or been intended to accept) what they saw at face value. With that end in mind, the painters advisors did their best to manipulate the viewer accordingly, and De Jong discusses their strategies and methods. Studies the propagandistic and political features of five prominent series of frescoes originating in papal Rome in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Discusses the manipulation of historical events for propagandistic purposes, the importance of inscriptions in controlling interpretation, and the reactions of contemporary viewers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
The Power and the Glorification (Hardcover)
Author
Jan L. de Jong
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park
Publication year
2013
Condition
new
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0271050799
ISBN 13
9780271050799

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