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Explores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine, emphasizing the role of the spectator in the production of meaning.



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“This brilliantly original book illuminates the relationship, long debated by scholars, between portraiture and religious images in early modern Spain and its empire. Throughout, Jasienski engages an impressively wide range of texts, whether writings on naturalism in portraiture, treatises on God-given royal power, or Inquisitorial condemnations of idolatrous devotion to portraits. Praying to Portraits is a book of great interpretive breadth and depth, and it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the visual culture of the Spanish world.”

—Tanya J. Tiffany,author of Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: 23/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9780271093444, 978-0271093444
      ISBN10: 0271093447
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Explores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine, emphasizing the role of the spectator in the production of meaning.



      Trade Review

      “This brilliantly original book illuminates the relationship, long debated by scholars, between portraiture and religious images in early modern Spain and its empire. Throughout, Jasienski engages an impressively wide range of texts, whether writings on naturalism in portraiture, treatises on God-given royal power, or Inquisitorial condemnations of idolatrous devotion to portraits. Praying to Portraits is a book of great interpretive breadth and depth, and it makes a major contribution to our understanding of the visual culture of the Spanish world.”

      —Tanya J. Tiffany,author of Diego Velázquez’s Early Paintings and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century Seville

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