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Book SynopsisEmotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800 is a collection of studies variously exploring the role of visual and material culture in shaping early modern emotional experiences. The volume’s transatlantic framework moves from The Netherlands, Spain, and Italy to Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and the Philippines, and centers on visual culture as a means to explore how emotions differ in their local and global “contexts” amidst the many shifts occurring c. 1450–1800. These themes are examined through the lens of art informed by religious ideas, especially Catholicism, with each essay probing how religiously inflected art stimulated, molded, and encoded emotions. Contributors: Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, Alison C. Fleming, Natalia Keller, Walter S. Melion, Olaya Sanfuentes, Patricia Simons, Dario Velandia Onofre, and Charles M. Rosenberg.
Trade Review“Emotions, Art and Christianity is a beautifully constructed edited collection that enhances our understanding of early modern faith practices and their emotional dimensions across the transatlantic world.” Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2022), pp. 467–469.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Heather Graham PART 1: Jesuits and the Visual Language of Emotions 1 The Emotions of Ignatius of Loyola and the Mental Pictures of the Spiritual Exercises Alison C. Fleming 2 Allegory and Affective Experience in Thomas Sailly, S.J.’s Thesaurus precum et exercitiorum spiritualium of 1609 Walter S. Melion 3 O Tristissimum Spectaculum: Affective Responses to a Passional Iconography of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Dario Velandia Onofre PART 2: Gendered Emotions 4 A Mother’s Wise and Prudent Grief: Reading Raphael’s Baglioni Entombment through the History of Emotions Heather Graham 5 To Weep with Mary and Mourn for Christ: Luis de Morales and the Facilitation of Emotional Communities in Badajoz, Spain Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank PART 3: Emotional Communities and the Christ Child 6 “Kiss the Feet of the Infant Jesus”: The Emotional Efficacy of Early Christ Child Sculptures in Europe and Beyond Patricia Simons 7 The Vocabulary of Tenderness: Maternal Feelings towards the Christ Child among Spanish American Nuns Natalia Keller and Olaya Sanfuentes PART 4: Emotions Transformed 8 “The Kernel and Soul of Art”: Emotions in Rembrandt’s Religious Etchings Charles M. Rosenberg 9 A Fly in Milk: Fear and Black (In)visibility in New Spanish Painting Elena FitzPatrick Sifford Index
