The visual culture of Catholic Enlightenment

Introduction : Rome and the Catholic Enlightenment in historical context -- Ecclesiastical reform and the European public : Italian Jansenism and the Catholic Enlightenment -- Sanctity and social utility : making saints in the era of Catholic Enlightenment -- The papacy and the patrimony I : Corsini...

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Main Author: Johns, Christopher M. S. (Author)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2015
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Rome and the Catholic Enlightenment in historical contextEcclesiastical reform and the European public : Italian Jansenism and the Catholic Enlightenment
  • Sanctity and social utility : making saints in the era of Catholic Enlightenment
  • The papacy and the patrimony I : Corsini cultural initiatives on the Capitoline Hill
  • The papacy and the patrimony II : the expansion of the Capitoline museums under Benedict XIV and Clement XIII
  • Enlightened administration and polite conversation : Clement XII and Benedict XIV on the Quirinal Hill
  • Roman spaces of Catholic Enlightenment : sacred sites and institutions of social utility
  • Popes, episcopacy, and the "good bishop" of Catholic Enlightenment
  • Epilogue : two Portuguese earthquakes and the end of Catholic Enlightenment.