Art in dispute: Catholic debates at the time of Trent : with an edition and translation of key documents

Abstract

"The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Trent (1563). Art in Dispute revisits this response by focusing on its antecedents rather than its consequences. The mid-sixteenth century saw, besides new scholarship on Byzantine doctrines, heated debates about neo-scholastic interpretations. Disagreement, suppressed at Trent but re-emerging soon afterwards, centered on the question whether religious images were solely signs referring to holy subjects or also sacred objects in their own right. It was a debate with major implications for art theory and devotional practice. The volume contains editions and translations of texts by Martín Pérez de Ayala, Matthieu Ory, Jean Calvin, Ambrogio Catarino Politi, and Iacopo Nacchianti, along with a previously unknown draft of the Tridentine decree"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

History -- Documents. Corollarium de imaginibus sanctorum/Corollary concerning the images of saints / Martín Pérez de Ayala -- De cultu imaginum/The worship of images / Matthieu Ory -- Opposing views on sacred images / Matthieu Ory, Jean Calvin -- Disputatio de cultu et adoratione imaginum/Disputation on the worship and adoration of images / Ambrogio Catarino Politi -- Digressio de imaginum usu ac cultu in ecclesia dei/Digression about the use and worship of images in God's church / Iacopo Nacchianti -- Draft of the decree on saints, relics, and images / Council of Trent.