Mystics and politics: Bernini’s Transverberation of St Teresa and its political meaning
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<a href="https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/pdf/10.3828/sj.2018.27.2.4" target="_blank" >https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/pdf/10.3828/sj.2018.27.2.4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sj.2018.27.2.4" target="_blank" >10.3828/sj.2018.27.2.4</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Mystics and politics: Bernini’s Transverberation of St Teresa and its political meaning
Original language description
Bernini’s Transverberation of St Teresa in the Carmelite church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome is usually interpreted as a masterpiece of religious art. We can, however, ask whether this exhausts its significance, or whether it is possible to argue that the commission also possessed political value. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine that a representation of a Spanish saint in papal Rome could be politically neutral. It is instead quite probable that its donor, Cardinal Federico Cornaro, used the statue both in order to embody his positive attitude towards the Spanish party, which dominated the conclave and could help him to be elected the next pope, and to demonstrate his loyalty to the cardinals appointed by Urban VIII. To these ends, Bernini used the whole space of the church to lead the visitor to the proper view of his sculptural and architectural ensemble – and of Federico, whose portrayal appears within it.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Sculpture Journal
ISSN
1366-2724
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
27
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
193-204
UT code for WoS article
000456139900004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85054080774