The Female Baroque is a contribution to the revival since the 1980s of early modern women's writings and cultural production in English. Its originality is twofold: it links women's writing in ...English with the wider context of Baroque culture, and it introduces the issue of gender into discussion of the Baroque. The title comes from Julia Kristeva's study of Teresa of Avila, that 'the secrets of Baroque civilization are female'. The book is built on a schema of recurring Baroque characteristics - narrativity, hyperbole, melancholia, kitsch, and plateauing, pointing less to surface manifestations and more to underlying ideological tensions. The crucial concept of the Female Baroque is developed in detail. Attention is then given particularly to Gertrude More, Mary Ward, Aemilia Lanyer, The Ferrar/Collet women, Mary Wroth, the Cavendish sisters, Hester Pulter, Anne Hutchinson, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn, the latter two whose lives and writings point to the developing cultural transition to the Enlightenment.
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.
The temple of San Francisco de La Paz is one of the best examples of the mestizo baroque style in Bolivia. The richness of the interior of the temple contributes to creating a theatrical and symbolic ...space, intending to evangelize and transmit the new values of the Catholic faith, through its iconographic programme. Our analysis highlights the differentiation of interior space using altarpiece programmes, thus evidencing how interior architecture is used for communication purposes. We conclude that interior space is transformed for evangelizing purposes.
THE FIRST EFFORT to build an organ in colonial South Africa occurred in 1720, but the plan for a Dutch instrument to be installed in the Groote Kerk in Cape Town never came to fruition. Because of ...the impact of the Reformation in Europe, no organs were constructed in South Africa before 1735.1 Evidence suggests that the first documented organbuilder in the country was Johann Jacob Posse (Poosen), who emigrated from Eisleben, Germany, and whose ship docked in Cape Town in 1735. The largest free-standing organ in South Africa in terms of structural design is found in the Feather Market Centre in Port Elizabeth. ...many South African organs during the 1970s and 1980s were characterized by fresh, natural, and unforced tone.12 However, the tonal features of this newly-found sound idiom were not appreciated in all circles and began eliciting various levels of criticism in the organ fraternity. Paul Ott built other significant organs in South Africa based on Orgelbewegung principles:16 Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche St. Petri in Paari (1962, И/Р/10) Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Kroondal (1964, II/P/14) Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Mossel Bay (1971, II/P/17) Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Pretoria (1973, II/P/21) The Kroondal organ was donated to the congregation by Bayer, the German pharmaceutical company.17 Ott also built a number of practice organs for the music departments of the University of Stellenbosch (two in 1967), the University of the Free State (two in 1970), and the University of Pretoria (one in 1970).18 MARCUSSEN & SØN The internationally acclaimed Danish firm Marcussen & Søn was established in 1806 by Jürgen Marcussen (1781-1860).
As a key figure in baroque Rome, Sforza Pallavicino embodies many of the apparent contradictions of his era. This examination of his life and work, covering his activities as a scholar, author and ...Jesuit, challenges current historical periodisations and disciplinary boundaries.
