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Baroque Seville
2017
Overview
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.
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780271076645, 027107664X
