TY - CHAP
T1 - Enlightening St. Ignatius through the flame of arts
T2 - A singular artistic and iconographic programme in the Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora
AU - Pereira Coutinho, Maria João
AU - Ferreira, Sílvia
AU - Campos Pinto, Paulo
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0046/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00417%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00417%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0029/PT#
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0046
UIDB/00417/2020
UIDP/00417/2020
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0029
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - The aim of this paper is to present an unpublished study about the St. Ignatius of Loyola chapel in the Jesuit Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora, Portugal. Built in the sixteenth century, was commissioned by a member of the Society of Jesus and adviser of the Queen of England, D. Catarina de Braganza (1638-1705), during her reign. He authored writings of theological scope and owned a vast library, acquired in London and transported to Évora, when he returned to Portugal, with the Queen. The singularity of this chapel relays on the exquisite combination of gilded and coloured woodcarving with marble inlay, displaying an iconographic program alluding to the Ignatian spirituality inspired by the emblems of the Mundus symbolicus by Filippo Piccinelli (1604-1678). The whole decorative program reflects the domain of the Catholic Reformation visual culture and a sharpening perception of the role of images in the construction of an apologetic and evangelizing discourse by the Portuguese Jesuits and its commissioner.
AB - The aim of this paper is to present an unpublished study about the St. Ignatius of Loyola chapel in the Jesuit Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora, Portugal. Built in the sixteenth century, was commissioned by a member of the Society of Jesus and adviser of the Queen of England, D. Catarina de Braganza (1638-1705), during her reign. He authored writings of theological scope and owned a vast library, acquired in London and transported to Évora, when he returned to Portugal, with the Queen. The singularity of this chapel relays on the exquisite combination of gilded and coloured woodcarving with marble inlay, displaying an iconographic program alluding to the Ignatian spirituality inspired by the emblems of the Mundus symbolicus by Filippo Piccinelli (1604-1678). The whole decorative program reflects the domain of the Catholic Reformation visual culture and a sharpening perception of the role of images in the construction of an apologetic and evangelizing discourse by the Portuguese Jesuits and its commissioner.
U2 - 10.11116/9789461664488
DO - 10.11116/9789461664488
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978 94 6270 327 8
SP - 181
EP - 196
BT - Eloquent Images. Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period
A2 - Capriotti, Giuseppe
A2 - Fabre, Pierre-Antoine
A2 - Pavone, Sabina
PB - Leuven University Press
CY - Leuven
ER -