Art in Dispute

Catholic Debates at the Time of Trent. with an Edition and Translation of Key Documents
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-42128-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 911 g

Reihe: Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this response by focusing on its antecedents rather than its consequences. The mid-sixteenth century saw, besides new scholarship on Byzantine doctrines, heated debates about neo-scholastic interpretations. Disagreement, suppressed at Trent but re-emerging soon afterwards, centered on the question whether religious images were solely signs referring to holy subjects or also sacred objects in their own right. It was a debate with major implications for art theory and devotional practice.

The volume contains editions and translations of texts by Martín Pérez de Ayala, Matthieu Ory, Jean Calvin, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, and Iacopo Nacchianti, along with a previously unknown draft of the Tridentine decree.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Boer, Wietse

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations

Part 1: History

1 Premises: The Sacred Image in an Age of Religious Crisis

1 The Thomist View and Its Critics

2 Early Catholic Responses to Reformation Critiques

3 The Image Question in the Mid-Sixteenth Century

4 Marcello Cervini and the Image Debate

2 Disputes: The Sacred Image and the Counter-Reformation

1 The Traditions of Martín Pérez de Ayala

2 In Defense of Thomism: Matthieu Ory

3 Ory and Calvin

4 How to Honor Images: Ambrogio Catarino

5 Nacchianti’s Road to Orthodoxy

3 Reverberations: St. Germain, Trent, and Beyond

1 On the Sidelines of Trent: Eliseo and Ninguarda

2 Diego Laínez between St. Germain and Trent

3 Trent: The French Connection

4 A Previously Unknown Draft

5 A Question about Honor

6 Beyond Trent: Paleotti to Bellarmino

7 Conclusion

Part 2: Documents

Note on Editions and Translations

I Martín Pérez de Ayala

Corollarium de imaginibus sanctorum / Corollary Concerning the Images of Saints

II Matthieu Ory

De cultu imaginum / The Worship of Images

III Matthieu Ory – Jean Calvin

Opposing Views on Sacred Images

IV Ambrogio Catarino Politi

Disputatio de cultu et adoratione imaginum / Disputation on the Worship and Adoration of Images

V Iacopo Nacchianti

Digressio de imaginum usu ac cultu in ecclesia dei / Digression about the Use and Worship of Images in God’s Church

VI Council of Trent

Draft of the Decree on Saints, Relics, and Images / Draft of the Decree on Saints, Relics, and Images

Appendices

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wietse de Boer, Ph.D. (1995) is Professor of History at Miami University. His research focuses on Italian early-modern religious and cultural history. His publications include The Conquest of the Soul: Confession, Discipline, and Public Order in Counter-Reformation Milan (Brill, 2001).