{"product_id":"praying-to-portraits-adam-jasienski-9780271093444","title":"Praying to Portraits: Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePraying to Portraits, \u003c\/i\u003eart historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to \"true\" effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual's relationship to the divine. Using Inquisition records, hagiographies, art-theoretical treatises, poems, and plays, Jasienski convincingly demonstrates that portraiture was at the very center of broader debates about the status of images in Spain and its colonies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighly original and persuasive, \u003ci\u003ePraying to Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e profoundly revises our understanding of early modern portraiture. It will intrigue art historians across geographical boundaries, and it will also find an audience among scholars of architecture, history, and religion in the early modern Hispanic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Jasienski\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271093447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271093444\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 05\/23\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 8.19w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2024","brand":"Adam Jasienski","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44131791175935,"sku":"9780271093444","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_01cc8408-8474-4104-a05b-8798bc988c63.jpg?v=1687476419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/praying-to-portraits-adam-jasienski-9780271093444","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}