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Girolamo Muziano, Scipione Pulzone, and the First Generation of Jesuit Art by Marciari, John is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Girolamo Muziano, Scipione Pulzone, and the First Generation of Jesuit Art about?

While Bernini and other artists of his generation would be responsible for much of the decoration at the Chiesa del Gesù and other Jesuit churches, there was more than half a century of art commissioned by the Jesuits before Bernini came to the attention of the order. Many of the early works painted in the 1580s and 90s are no longer in the church, and some do not even survive; even a major monument like Girolamo Muziano’s __Circumcision__, the original high altarpiece, is neglected in scholarship on Jesuit art. This paper turns to the early altarpieces painted for the Gesù by Muziano and Scipione Pulzone, to discuss the pictorial and intellectual concerns that seem to have guided the painters, and also to some extent to speculate on why their works are no longer at the Gesù, and why these artists are so unfamiliar today.

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Author
Marciari, John
Publisher
Brill (ISSN 2214-1324)
Published
2019
Language
EN
Field
Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)