{"product_id":"baroque-seville-amanda-wunder-9780271076645","title":"Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eBaroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as \u003ci\u003emedios divinos\u003c\/i\u003e--divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, \u003ci\u003eBaroque Seville\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating account of Seville's hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Amanda Wunder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 027107664X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271076645\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 8.30w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2017","brand":"Amanda Wunder","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44075993465087,"sku":"9780271076645","price":106.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a53e286-254c-491d-ac2d-644f07b4d8b8.jpg?v=1685462585","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baroque-seville-amanda-wunder-9780271076645","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}