Baroque Influencers: Jesuits, Rubens, and the Arts of Convincing by PIERRE DELSAERDT

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How did Jesuits use the contemporary visual language of baroque to draw the public into their vision of humanity, religion and society? In this book, several authors attempt to answer this complex question. The setting is Antwerp in the 17th century. At that time, the city served as the headquarters of the Jesuit order in the Netherlands and as a bastion against Calvinism in the Dutch Republic. The arts were flourishing in an unprecedented manner there. Painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck produced works commissioned by the Jesuits and participated in the life of the Catholic community organised by the order, together with large groups of other believers. For example, the book considers in some detail the baroque Church of St Ignatius ? today St Charles Borromeo Church ? on Hendrik Conscienceplein, for which Rubens created virtuoso ceiling paintings.

ISBN: 9789464666311
Author(s): PIERRE DELSAERDT