Audience, identity, and the Inquisition in the early modern Hispanic world
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  alternate name: Christian art and symbolism--Latin America--17th century
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, Latin American--16th century
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, Latin American--17th century
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  alternate name: Christian art and symbolism--Spain--16th century
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, Spanish--17th century
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  alternate name: Christian art and symbolism--Spain--17th century
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, Spanish--16th century
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  alternate name: Christian art and symbolism--Latin America--16th century
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127610
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about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131299
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320194821
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330135956
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137201
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330138031
abstract: "Explores sacred portraits in early modern Spain and Latin America and their use in mediating an individual's relationship to the divine, emphasizing the role of the spectator in the production of meaning"-- Provided by publisher.
abstract: "Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at the very center of broader debates about the status of images in Spain and its colonies."-- On front flap of dust jacket.
author: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310171914
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310171914
language: eng
name: Praying to portraits
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: Introduction : portraits and sacred images in early modernity -- Sacrificing the self -- True portraits, lying portraits -- Repainting portraits -- Portraits as sacred images -- Conclusion : the life histories of sacred portraits and the history of sacred portraiture.
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  additional type: lang
  text: In English.
temporal coverage: 1500-1699
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301326462

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