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Praying to Portraits - Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Hardcover)
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Praying to Portraits - Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World (Hardcover)
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In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the
history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type
in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across
early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits.
They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits
that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of
living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these
difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context.
He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and
autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating
an individual’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition
records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and
plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at
the very center of broader debates about the status of images in
Spain and its colonies. Highly original and persuasive, Praying to
Portraits profoundly revises our understanding of early modern
portraiture. It will intrigue art historians across geographical
boundaries, and it will also find an audience among scholars of
architecture, history, and religion in the early modern Hispanic
world.
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