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Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729

Missionizing through the Arts

Edited by Kateřina Horníčková and Michal Šroněk - Contributions by Ondřej Jakubec; Martin Deutsch; Martin Mádl; Katrin Sterba and Štěpán Vácha

This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate the cult of miraculous images, saints, and local Catholic customs in the Central European region, where a tradition of religious dissent went back to the legendary Hussites of the 15th century. Jesuit art is seen as resulting from the transfer, local adaptation, and visualization of ideas about image theology, the order's global mission, its self-promotion, and the construction of the religious past. Examining the architecture, statues, images, murals, and decorative programs of Jesuit complexes and other visual media (devotional prints, medieval images), the essays here demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety as they grew into one of the most successful agents of Catholic Reform in the Bohemian kingdom.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 428 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-66690-586-1 • Hardback • February 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
Subjects: History / Europe / General, Art / History / General

Kateřina Horníčková is senior researcher and assistant professor of art history at Palacký University Olomouc.

Michal Šroněk is professor in the Department of Art History and deputy director of the Institute of Art and Culture at the University of South Bohemia České Budějovice.

Introduction: The Jesuits and the Visual Arts in the Czechlands, Michal Šroněk

Chronology, Michal Šroněk

Chapter 1: The Church that Žižka Destroyed : The First Jesuit Churches in the Czech Lands, Ondřej Jakubec

Chapter 2: Marian Columns from Rome to Central Europe: The Transfer of the Symbolic Triumph, Michal Šroněk

Chapter 3: Devotional Image Series in Jesuit Missions: On the Early Modern Multiplication of the Image, Michal Šroněk and Kateřina Horníčková

Chapter 4: A Unique Sign of True Faith. Medieval Marian Images and the Jesuit Construction of the Past, Kateřina Horníčková

Chapter 5: Salus Populi Romani: The Roman Palladium of the Jesuit Church in Brno, Martin Deutsch

Chapter 6: Jesuit saints in the Czech Lands: Cultic Staging of Religious Images in Jesuit Churches, Štěpán Vácha

Chapter 7: From Visible to Invisible: Visualising Catholic Dogma in Jesuit Churches, Katrin Sterba

Chapter 8: Rivality and Inspiration. The Jesuits and Other Religious Orders in the Czech Lands after 1620, Martin Mádl

This book offers a fascinating, wide-ranging, and beautifully researched examination of how the Society of Jesus creatively and flexibly wielded art in its efforts to strengthen the Catholic Church and convert Protestants in Bohemia. The essays insightfully explore the rich and often contentious historical contexts of Bohemia’s early modern religious and cultural landscape.


— Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin


Collectively, the Jesuits were the most critical agents of change in the Catholic transformation of Bohemia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This team of accomplished scholars sheds an important light on the visual strategies adopted by the order in their quest to reestablish the Roman faith in the Czech lands. As such it offers essential insights not just for Bohemia but the broader process of Catholic Reform in Central Europe and across the early modern world.


— Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota


It is a rare pleasure reading a book of essays in which every text contributes insightfully to the success of the whole volume. Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729 offers a fascinating, wide-ranging, and beautifully researched examination of how the Society of Jesus creatively and flexibly wielded art in its efforts to strengthen the Catholic Church and convert Protestants in Bohemia and Moravia. The essays explore the rich and often contentious historical contexts of these lands’ early modern religious and cultural landscapes... I know of no better introduction to Jesuit art and culture in the Czech lands. English-language literature on this subject is sorely lacking. The stimulating discussions of the essays will richly reward the attentive reader.


— Journal of Jesuit Studies


This unusually coherent and well-structured anthology makes numerous findings of research on Jesuit art in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from the second half of the sixteenth century to around 1730 accessible to an international readership. The art history represented here departs from an analysis focused on form and style that pays little attention to social and political contexts. The aim is not to assess the artistic quality of the execution or the “progressiveness” of the modes of representation. Rather, in line with Evonne Anita Levy’s monograph Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque, works of art are considered in terms of claims and intended effects as well as in connection with practices. For historians, this approach makes the anthology highly relevant.


— The Catholic Historical Review


Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729

Missionizing through the Arts

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  • This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate the cult of miraculous images, saints, and local Catholic customs in the Central European region, where a tradition of religious dissent went back to the legendary Hussites of the 15th century. Jesuit art is seen as resulting from the transfer, local adaptation, and visualization of ideas about image theology, the order's global mission, its self-promotion, and the construction of the religious past. Examining the architecture, statues, images, murals, and decorative programs of Jesuit complexes and other visual media (devotional prints, medieval images), the essays here demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety as they grew into one of the most successful agents of Catholic Reform in the Bohemian kingdom.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 428 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-66690-586-1 • Hardback • February 2023 • $125.00 • (£96.00)
    Subjects: History / Europe / General, Art / History / General
Author
Author
  • Kateřina Horníčková is senior researcher and assistant professor of art history at Palacký University Olomouc.

    Michal Šroněk is professor in the Department of Art History and deputy director of the Institute of Art and Culture at the University of South Bohemia České Budějovice.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: The Jesuits and the Visual Arts in the Czechlands, Michal Šroněk

    Chronology, Michal Šroněk

    Chapter 1: The Church that Žižka Destroyed : The First Jesuit Churches in the Czech Lands, Ondřej Jakubec

    Chapter 2: Marian Columns from Rome to Central Europe: The Transfer of the Symbolic Triumph, Michal Šroněk

    Chapter 3: Devotional Image Series in Jesuit Missions: On the Early Modern Multiplication of the Image, Michal Šroněk and Kateřina Horníčková

    Chapter 4: A Unique Sign of True Faith. Medieval Marian Images and the Jesuit Construction of the Past, Kateřina Horníčková

    Chapter 5: Salus Populi Romani: The Roman Palladium of the Jesuit Church in Brno, Martin Deutsch

    Chapter 6: Jesuit saints in the Czech Lands: Cultic Staging of Religious Images in Jesuit Churches, Štěpán Vácha

    Chapter 7: From Visible to Invisible: Visualising Catholic Dogma in Jesuit Churches, Katrin Sterba

    Chapter 8: Rivality and Inspiration. The Jesuits and Other Religious Orders in the Czech Lands after 1620, Martin Mádl

Reviews
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  • This book offers a fascinating, wide-ranging, and beautifully researched examination of how the Society of Jesus creatively and flexibly wielded art in its efforts to strengthen the Catholic Church and convert Protestants in Bohemia. The essays insightfully explore the rich and often contentious historical contexts of Bohemia’s early modern religious and cultural landscape.


    — Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, Austin


    Collectively, the Jesuits were the most critical agents of change in the Catholic transformation of Bohemia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This team of accomplished scholars sheds an important light on the visual strategies adopted by the order in their quest to reestablish the Roman faith in the Czech lands. As such it offers essential insights not just for Bohemia but the broader process of Catholic Reform in Central Europe and across the early modern world.


    — Howard Louthan, University of Minnesota


    It is a rare pleasure reading a book of essays in which every text contributes insightfully to the success of the whole volume. Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729 offers a fascinating, wide-ranging, and beautifully researched examination of how the Society of Jesus creatively and flexibly wielded art in its efforts to strengthen the Catholic Church and convert Protestants in Bohemia and Moravia. The essays explore the rich and often contentious historical contexts of these lands’ early modern religious and cultural landscapes... I know of no better introduction to Jesuit art and culture in the Czech lands. English-language literature on this subject is sorely lacking. The stimulating discussions of the essays will richly reward the attentive reader.


    — Journal of Jesuit Studies


    This unusually coherent and well-structured anthology makes numerous findings of research on Jesuit art in Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia from the second half of the sixteenth century to around 1730 accessible to an international readership. The art history represented here departs from an analysis focused on form and style that pays little attention to social and political contexts. The aim is not to assess the artistic quality of the execution or the “progressiveness” of the modes of representation. Rather, in line with Evonne Anita Levy’s monograph Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque, works of art are considered in terms of claims and intended effects as well as in connection with practices. For historians, this approach makes the anthology highly relevant.


    — The Catholic Historical Review


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