The pulpit and the brush: preaching and painting in seventeenth-century Spain
<p>The Council of Trent re-examined the traditions of the Catholic Church regarding the role of the visual arts in worship. Equipped with a humanistic mindset steeped in Greco-Roman rhetoric, the leading clergy came to value paintings, first and foremost, for their ability to stir the viewers’...
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2019
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