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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Rome’s preeminent Marian shrine as the site for the most wide-ranging expression of their spiritual visions. In two separate though independent campaigns they commissioned colossal chapels which they adorned with elaborate programs of paint- ing and sculpture. Unprecedented in their scale richness of decoration and multiple functions the Sistine and Pauline Chapels represent two of the most complex public monuments built in the papal capital dur- ing the Counter-Reformation period. Art and Spirituality in Counter-Reformation Rome offers an interdisciplinary study of the chapels providing an interpretive read- ing of their artistic programs as an expres- sion of their patrons’ personal spirituality and of the larger institutional concerns of the papacy as it confronted the Protestant challenge. Viewed within their religious political and social contexts the historical meaning of the chapels are explored as a means to advance our understanding of the ways in which the post-Tridentine Church enlisted the visual arts to commu- nicate and advance its mission. (MP)