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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Noyes, Ruth S.

Titel

On the Fringes of Center: Disputed Hagiographic Imagery and the Crisis over the Beati moderni in Rome ca. 1600

Ist Teil von

• Renaissance quarterly, 2011-09, Vol.64 (3), p.800-846

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge: The Renaissance Society of America

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

Bibliografía de la Literatura Española

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article sets forth, through a small collection of case studies, the extent to which the literal and pictorial figures of the Beati moderni constituted potentially provocative and disputed hermeneutical territory between particular religious constituencies, in this case the Oratorians and the Jesuits, and an increasingly stringent Curia ca. 1600. A reexamination of Beati moderni hagiographic imagery, and curial censorship of such imagery, potentially problematizes scholarly assumptions that these images served the Counter-Reformation Church's demands to control the meaning of religious images and the cult of the saints. Such reassessment calls for the reevaluation of a newly-constituted, uniquely post-Tridentine genre of hagiographic imagery: the Beati moderni devotional altar image and its reproductive printed devotional derivatives.