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Subject(s)

• Mary Blessed Virgin, Saint [Browse]
• Devotional literature, Spanish—History and criticism [Browse]
• Immaculate Conception in art [Browse]
• Immaculate Conception—In literature [Browse]
• Painting, Spanish—17th century [Browse]
• Spanish literature—Classical period, 1500-1700—History and criticism [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Art [Browse]

Series

• Toronto Iberic ; 42. [More in this series]
• Toronto Iberic ; 42 [More in this series]

Summary note

"Immaculate Conceptions examines devotional writings, religious and literary texts, and visual art that feature the mystery of the immaculacy of the Virgin Mary in the culture of early modern Spain. The author's analysis is motivated by the complexity and multivalent capacity of the doctrine and its icon at a time when the debates around Mary's conception imbued all levels of religious and social life. She considers the many interests--political, doctrinal, artistic, and gender-driven--that intersect and compete in the exegesis and textual and visual representations of the Immaculate Conception. She argues that the Immaculate Conception of Mary proved to be a fertile conceptual and ideological field wherein the identities of the Spanish state, local communities, and individuals were negotiated, variously defined, and contested. The study's broader aim is to delineate a speculative category, the religious imagination, defined as a spiritual, intellectual, or artistic pursuit in which the individual is committed to sacred truth yet articulates this truth through contingent, partial, and contextually determined theological propositions. The representational status of the image and its relationship to theories of physical sight and spiritual vision are central to the author's formulation of this category."-- Provided by publisher.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02 November, 2020)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Anatomy of the religious imagination : immaculacy and the Spanish Counter-Reformation
• Army of peers : the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception for the popular imagination
• Pintor divino : the painter as divinely inspired liberal artist and the conditions of representation for a sacred mystery
• Visiones imaginarias : Pacheco, Velázquez, Zurbarán, and Murillo
• Concepción maravillosa : theological discourse and religious women writers.

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Other format(s)

Issued also in print.

ISBN

• 1-4875-3087-0
• 1-4875-3086-2

OCLC

1113866134

Doi

• 10.3138/9781487530860

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