"Andrea Pozzo and the Religious Theatre of the Seventeenth Century" offers a highly original, superbly researched, and compellingly written contextual examination of the life and works of the Jesuit artist Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709), known for his large-scale works of painted perspectival illusionism. This book presents Pozzo's career and his multi-faceted practice--which included painting, scenography, architecture, and a two-volume treatise on perspective--as a prime case study for understanding the relationship of the religious art and architecture of the seventeenth century to the period's culture of theatre and ritual. This is only the second monograph on Pozzo in English, and the first to undertake an expanded study of the artist, his work and the culture in which he was formed as a religious artist responding fully to the theatricality of his age. "Andrea Pozzo and the Religious Theatre of the Seventeenth Century" will appeal to historians of art, architecture, theatre, and religion, among others.

Andrea Pozzo and the Religious Theatre of the Seventeenth Century (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts)

Arts & Photography

Horn, Andrew

History & Criticism

St Josephs Univ Pr

In 1609 Pope Paul V beatified Ignatius of Loyola. To celebrate the event and to promote devotion to Ignatius, the Jesuits in Rome produced a small-format volume of 81 copper-plate engravings depicting his life. It was the most elaborate such saint's life ever produced and among the most elegant. The engraver was the distinguished Jean-Baptiste Barbe, a Fleming residing in Rome, who enlisted his fellow countryman, the young Peter Paul Rubens, to contribute drawings for the project. Aside from brief captions identifying the scenes, the book is without text. 2009 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Vita beati patris Ignatii Loiolae. For the occasion Saint Joseph's University Press has produced Constructing a Saint Through Images, which includes a facsimile edition, with English translation of the captions by James P.M. Walsh, S.J., and an introduction by John W. O'Malley, S.J. entitled "The Many Lives of Ignatius of Loyola, Future Saint."

Constructing a Saint Through Images: The 1609 Illustrated Biography of Ignatius of Loyola

Biographies & Memoirs

John W. O'Malley S.J.

James P. M. Walsh S.J.

Leaders & Notable People

This cumulative index to Jerome Nadal's Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, Vol. 1: The Infancy Narratives (2003), Vol. 2: The Passion Narratives (2007), and Vol. 3, The Resurrection Narratives (2005), offers an Index of Persons, Scriptural Index, Index of Subjects, and Iconographical Subjects. This volume also includes a monographic essay by Professor Walter S. Melion, who contributed introductory essays to each of the three preceding Nadal volumes. The title of his richly illustrated essay in this cumulative index volume is: "'Quis non intelligent hoc voluisse Christum': The Significance of the Redacted Images in Jeronimo Nadal's 'Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia" of 1595."

Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: Cumulative Index

Nadal, Jerome

Rediscovering Teilhard's Fire is a collection of 17 scholarly essays focusing on the Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin that is divided into four thematic sections: Visionary, Mystic, Theologian, and Philosopher; Aesthetic Appeal; In Dialogue; and Contributions to Science and Technology.

Rediscovering Teilhard's Fire

Memoirs

Four paperback volumes packed into a beautiful hardcover case, Metropolitan Paradise is the definitive book on the relationship between natural and urban environments. Sacred to the Lenni-Lenape and to many early Europeans who settled in the area, the Wissahickon Valley has all the elements of "paradise" recognized in many cultures - the dramatic gorge with high cliffs, twisted rocks, dark hemlocks, sparkling water and the bountiful rolling terrain directly to the north beyond the city boundaries. Ironically, this paradise is part of a large, old North American urban region, suffering from all the troubles of the modern metropolis. The Wissahickon Valley is a microcosm of changes in the American landscape over the past 400 years. The lessons of its history, present treatment and future possibilities, are both universal and unique. The book is both a local journey and, by extension, an exploration of how to resolve the crises of a collapsing natural world. Today cities are exploding into complex, densely packed, multi-dimensional organisms. With six billion people on the planet and a projected nine billion within 50 years, almost everyone will be living in a megalopolis. This book is the story of a struggle to establish and maintain connected natural systems in one metropolitan area. The preservation and restoration of this valley is offered as a possible model for the world's cities. Sustaining natural lands within the matrix of an increasingly pervasive urban landscape is crucial. These places are our "canary in the mine." If they cannot succeed, all wildness is imperiled, impoverishing all life and ultimately threatening human survival. This book is the authors' contribution to a remarkable and widespread effort to restore the Wissahickon Valley and to envision a bold and imaginative future.

Metropolitan Paradise: The Struggle for Nature in the City, Philadelphia's Wissahickon Valley, 1620-2020

History

Franklin, Carol

Contosta, David

Americas

The Art of Painting in Colonial Quito/ The el arte de la pintura en quito colonial (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts) (English and Spanish Edition)

Joseph of Narazeth Through the Centuries features collected essays from twenty years of the Saint Joseph's Day Lecture series. Profusely illustrated and featuring the work of a distinguished group of international scholars, this volume surveys the development in art, spirituality and literature of the veneration of St. Joseph. The fourteen essays are divided into five topical sections: 1) Biblical and Patristic Institutions, 2) Medieval Developments, 3) The Early Modern Period: Europe, 4) The Early Modern Period: Colonial Spanish America, 5) The Modern Era

Joseph of Nazareth Through the Centuries

Joseph F. Chorpenning

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Ancient Civilizations

Mortals With Tremendous Responsibilities: A History of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Bartle, Harvey, III

Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome (Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts)

Wisch, Barbara

Newbigin, Nerida

Norman MacKenzie accurately described the writings of the poet Hopkins in topographic terms as "Hopkins Country." This concept has profound implications for anyone who is trying to understand the poems which present every reader with challenges of reference to local and international events, autobiography, religious belief, trades, agriculture, philosophy, theology, aesthetics, culture-the actual list is much longer. Add to this the matter of how the poems sound: meter, rhythm, Anglo-Saxon alliteration and primordial diction, tempo, dynamics. This Hopkins Country is rich and varied. To make one's way through it one needs a guide. MacKenzie is that guide, almost as Vergil was Dante's guide through three levels of another country (and Dante made it up!).The best guide in any country is a well-worn footsoldier who has weathered and worked the terrain, not a temp like the rest of us who parachute in, or hover above a lovely spot or bird in flight and pontificate on this or that view or inscape, and then like a hummingbird or bee, fly off to another country. Reading Hopkins is work, as MacKenzie reported of his encounter in 1945 with the poet: "Hopkins was invitingly difficult, obviously worth exploring." At that point MacKenzie started an apprenticeship on the ground, in the field, that imperceptibly changed to lifetime mastery. For 57 years Norman MacKenzie was the senior tenant of that country. Paradoxically, he lived longer with Hopkins than Hopkins lived with himself. Hopkins died before he was 45. And when in 2004, just short of reaching the age of 89, MacKenzie died, he was bringing his precious Reader's Guide into the new century. His daughter, Catherine Phillips, as worthy a Hopkins scholar and editor as she is a daughter, with filial discretion has completed the revision, leaving most of the text as it was-most of us felt it could have been reprinted as it was-but taking note of scholarship and editing that have happened since 1981. The voice is still unmistakably that of Norman MacKenzie.What makes MacKenzie's book different? Precisely that lifetime of familiarity with the Country that the rest of us really just plan on visiting. For the armchair traveler, a map and descriptions of anywhere are likely to be enough. But not for an explorer. To try to read Hopkins the way one reads a map is to distort the Hopkins Country, like the world, to flatness. The true world is configured in infinitely varied ways. So too the Hopkins Country. Norman MacKenzie put it this way in the Preface to the 1981 edition: to the reader "on foot, healthily determined to follow the poet's trail, [existing specialized studies] seldom supply the mile-by-mile direction he needs. It is for him that A Reader's Guide to Gerard Manley Hopkins is intended, designed . . . to accompany the author through the poems in more or less chronological sequence. The territory, too rugged for the taste of his own contemporaries, is on that account all the more inviting to us today."Generations of students and instructors have treasured their rare copies of the 1981 edition, as they were unable to share the compendium of that Country as a gift to friends. Small as the book seems (277 pages), it is an encyclopedia of knowledge. There is a brief chronology of the life and interests of Hopkins, followed by 230 pages of guidance through the poems in the form of facts about the composition, manuscript variations, interpretations, paraphrases, and critical disagreements. A recently discovered playful poem is printed with commentary. An enlightening reference section of poetic terms and biographical notes on the poet's friends is followed by a select bibliography and full index.

Reader's Guide to Gerard Manley Hopkins

Literature & Fiction

MacKenzie, Norman H.

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