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- Title
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Houses, c.1660- c.1768.
- Authors
CHURCH-SOULARD, ANNABELLE
- Abstract
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; ART collecting; DOMESTIC architecture; GOD in art; DWELLINGS; RURAL housing; CHRISTIAN art &; symbolism; RELIGIOUS art
- Publication
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 2, p209
- ISSN
1754-0194
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1754-0208.2010.00278.x