Eloquent Images

Giuseppe Capriotti is an early modern art historian at the University of Macerata. Pierre-Antoine Fabre is historian of modern Catholicism and Evangelization at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Sabina Pavone is professor of early modern history and global history at the University of Macerata.

• Fields and frontiers of religious images: An introductionGiuseppe Capriotti, Sabina Pavone, and Pierre-Antoine Fabre PART 1. CONVERTING THE IMAGES, CONVERTING BY THE IMAGESEvangelicae Historiae Imagines as a paradigm of the Tridentine’s Image (16th–17th centuries)Pierre-Antoine Fabre The transcultural power of image : Giulio Aleni’s Life of Christ, and its diffusion between Europe and ChinaArianna Magnani Revealing images of Blessed Rodolfo AcquavivaRoberto Ricci Production, use and resemantisation of Marian images between evangelisation of mendicant orders and political propaganda in Spanish Sardinia (16th–17th centuries)Mauro Salis Destroy to replace: Evangelisation through images in missions in the East and WestValentina Borniotto Persuading with baptismal and triumphant images : Emotional entanglements in the apologies of conversion in the Early Modern Iberian World Maria Vittoria Spissu PART 2. PATHS OF DEVOTION‘Reading images instead of touching the divine’: When the word disembodies the figureClara Lieutaghi Crucified saints in the early seventeenth century : Models and devotional practices from the orthodox to the liminal in Spanish EuropeSilvia Mostaccio A Protestant case of the presence of God : The heart as the material aspect of divine experience and evangelisation in Jan Luyken’s Emblem XIVMauricio Oviedo Salazar Enlightening St. Ignatius through the flame of arts : A singular artistic and iconographic programme in the Church of the Holy Spirit in ÉvoraMaria João Pereira Coutinho, Paulo Campos Pinto, Sílvia Ferreira Splendori delle tenebre : Nocturne paintings on stone in Verona in the age of Agostino ValierLorenzo Ratto PART 3. WAYS OF PROPAGANDAGoverning angels, apocalyptic iconology, and imperialism : Reinterpreting the Apocalypsis novaGwladys Le Cuff Baptising the Turks in Constantinople: “The Triumph of the Church” by Philippe ThomassinFrancesco Sorce Religious imagery, conflict and coexistence in the seventeenth-century BalkansSilvia Notarfonso Quis ut Deus? Michael the Archangel across the early modern Spanish empireStephanie Porras Global images for global worship : Narratives, paintings and engravings of the martyrs of Japan in seventeenth-century Iberian worldsFederico Palomo Stars, dragons and luminous crosses in the Chinese sky : The Jesuit mission’s connected perspective on the supernatural in China (17th century)Michela Catto About the authors Plates

Een prikkelend boek dat overtuigend laat zien hoe belangrijk beeldtaal was in de globaliserende vroegmoderne wereld. - Jonas van Tol, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Volume 136, Issue 1, Jun 2023, p. 88 - 89, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5117/TvG2023.1.012.TOL