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De Jong, Jan L. The Power and the Glorification, Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. Pp. 208 + 124 illustrations. $ 82.95 cloth.Johns, Christopher M. S. The Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment. University Park PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. Pp. 440 + 160 illustrations. $ 89.95 cloth.For fourteen hundred years, from the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century to the founding of the Kingdom of Italy in the nineteenth, Rome and the papacy were almost inseparable. The seventeenth-century Baroque, with its grandiose and emotionally charged works by such artists as Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was perhaps papal Rome’s most splendid period, and baroque extravagance serves as a kind of foil for the art that engages the writers of these two books, published by Penn State University Press. Jan de Jong studies the preceding Renaissance, and in particular fresco paintings of papal doings. Christopher Johns studies the Age of Reason, after the Baroque. Both writers are well-published and respected scholars. Both are concerned with documents and objects and avoid flights of theory. Their books, however, are radically different. The virtue of the first lies in the
Religion and the Arts – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2017
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