The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) [1 ed.] 1409400638, 9781409400639

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The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) [1 ed.]
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Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 “The Dream of Happiness”: The Literature of the Spiritual Rococo and the Christianity of Reason
Spiritual Rococo and the Eighteenth-Century Salon
Sermons of the Spiritual Rococo and Christianity of Reason
Treatises of the Spiritual Rococo
Treatises of the Christianity of Reason
2 “As Bizarre a Style as Ever Occurred”: Rococo in France
Origins and Development of the Rococo, the “Goût Moderne”
The “Genre Pittoresque”
An Architectural Conduct Book: The Hôtel de Soubise
Serious Matters in Rococo Painting
Rococo Spirituality and French Rococo Church Décor
3 “Bright Shining as the Stars”: Spiritual Rococo in Central Europe
The Master Printers of Augsburg
Central Europe, the Catholic Enlightenment, and French Spiritual Literature
Cuvilliés and the Wessobrunner Stukkatoren
Italy and Central European Ceiling Painting
Architecture, the Cartouche, and the Central European Church Interior
Architecture “Fashioned of Ornament”: Dominikus Zimmermann and Johann Michael Feichtmayr
Heaven on Earth
4 “Irregular Ornament in the Finest French Taste”: Spiritual Rococo in Portugal and Brazil
Spiritual Rococo, the Portuguese Salon, and the Luso-Brazilian Enlightenment
Enter the Rococo: Paris and Augsburg Prints in Portugal and Brazil
Portuguese Regionalism and the Benedictine Abbey of Tibães
Brazilian Rococo
Minas Gerais Rococo and Its Diffusion
5 “O Happy Vision!”: Spiritual Rococo in Spain and Spanish South America
Non-Iberian European Immigration to the Cono Sur
Rococo in Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago
Mission Rococo in Paraguay and Patagonia
Bourbon Reforms and French Spirituality in the Cono Sur
Epilogue: “Superfluous Stucco and Laughable Decoration”: Rococo, Religion, and the Global Enlightenment
Appendix A: French Spiritual Literature in Central European Collections
Appendix B: French Spiritual Literature in Luso-Brazilian Collections
Appendix C: French Spiritual Literature in the Spanish Southern Cone
Bibliography
Index
Plates

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