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Baroque Seville - Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (Hardcover)
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Baroque Seville - Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (Hardcover)
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Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a
tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural
disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this
frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the
lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder
investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were
originally conceived as medios divinos-divine solutions to the
problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new
polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for
venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings
for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival
books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or
rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years.
Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a
profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of
sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who
made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and
encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse
range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling
look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and
the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in
the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and
thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of
Seville's hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers
of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
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