Jesuit Art and Architecture in Asia
- Book Title:
- The Jesuits and the Arts 1540–1773
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- Book Chapter
- Year:
- 2005
- Publisher:
- Saint Joseph's University Press
- Place published:
- Philadelphia
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- Abstract:
The Jesuits and the Arts, 1540–1773 is the first survey ever published of the Jesuits' global artistic enterprise in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, from the foundation of the Society of Jesus in 1540 to its suppression in 1773. Here the Jesuits' extraordinary commitment to the arts—the subject of a groundswell of recent scholarly work—comes spectacularly alive, with 476 full color, high resolution images of Jesuit buildings, paintings, sculpture, theatrical sets, and music from around the globe, many of them published here for the first time. No other book dealing with this aspect of the Jesuits' activities is as comprehensive or as profusely illustrated. Authors of the twelve essays are leading specialists from Italy, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Argentina, and the United States; some of them are published here in English for the first time.
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- ISBN:
- 97809161015270916101525