The visual culture of Catholic Enlightenment /
Investigates the response of the Roman Catholic Church to European Enlightenment critiques of revealed religion and clerical governance through the lens of its art, architecture, urbanism and material culture.
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Rome and the Catholic Enlightenment in historical context
- Ecclesiastical reform and the European public : Italian Jansenism and 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.