- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (Nov 16 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0691048193
- ISBN-13: 978-0691048192
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.6 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 803 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Susan Verdi Webster offers us a fascinating book on Sevillian processional sculpture during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries... Webster has made a tremendous contribution to the field, and has laid a foundation on which she and others can continue to build. Burlington
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For nearly five centuries, lay religious groups throughout the Spanish-speaking world have staged elaborate public processions commemorating the events of Christ's passion during Holy Week. In the Golden Age, such processions featured extraordinarily lifelike sculpted images that were naturalistically painted, elaborately clothed and adorned, and surrounded by convincing stage properties and scenography--all of which combined to create a profound impression on spectators. Long dismissed as a minor form of popular art, these polychrome wood sculptures emerge from this book as a unique genre, one that can be best understood within its ritual context. Here, Susan Verdi Webster explores the Holy Week processions of penitential confraternities in Golden-Age Seville, for which many of Spain's greatest sculptors created some of the most illusionistic works ever. She demonstrates how the pivotal role of the sculptures in procession transformed them from carved wooden objects to catalysts for intense spiritual and emotional experiences shared by spectators in the streets.
Drawing on extensive archival evidence and contemporary chronicles, Webster is among the first to examine in depth Spanish processional sculpture, its patrons, and its ritual function. Her inquiry wends through a kaleidoscopic variety of arenas--artistic, religious, social, cultural, and political--to provide a fascinating perspective on popular religious devotion in Golden-Age Spain and on a previously undervalued dimension of Spanish sculpture.
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Visions of Seville,
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This review is from: Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week (Hardcover)
The cover image (La Virgen de la Soledad) and the Macarena Madonna inside alone are worth the price of the book, but it's a fascinating account of a vibrant "performance art" (street processions). See also The Madonnas of Europe and, for another kind of devotional outreach, Gardens of Revelation.
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This review is from: Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week (Hardcover)
This book treats of the Sevillan Holy Week Confraternities to some details.The processional images are treated in Chapters Two and Five, but they were simply mentioned briefly. I was expecting to have an expanded discussion on this matter. However, I find the price is too much for this medium size book. 1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Visions of Seville,
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This review is from: Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain: Sevillian Confraternities and the Processional Sculpture of Holy Week (Hardcover)
The cover image (La Virgen de la Soledad) and the Macarena Madonna inside alone are worth the price of the book, but it's a fascinating account of a vibrant "performance art" (street processions). See also The Madonnas of Europe and, for another kind of devotional outreach, Gardens of Revelation.
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