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Praying to Portraits

Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World

By: Adam Jasienski

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Praying to Portraits

Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World

By: Adam Jasienski

In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across 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. Highly original and persuasive, Praying to Portraits 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.

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233

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Penn State Press

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027109463X

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9780271094632

The Trap

By: Tadeusz Różewicz,Adam Czerniawski

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The Trap

By: Tadeusz Różewicz,Adam Czerniawski

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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120

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Psychology Press

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3718658569

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9783718658565

Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25

By: Adam Lomnicki

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Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25

By: Adam Lomnicki

A common tendency in the field of population ecology has been to overlook individual differences by treating populations as homogeneous units; conversely, in behavioral ecology the tendency has been to concentrate on how individual behavior is shaped by evolutionary forces, but not on how this behavior affects population dynamics. Adam Lomnicki and others aim to remedy this one-sidedness by showing that the overall dynamical behavior of populations must ultimately be understood in terms of the behavior of individuals. Professor Lomnicki's wide-ranging presentation of this approach includes simple mathematical models aimed at describing both the origin and consequences of individual variation among plants and animals. The author contends that further progress in population ecology will require taking into account individual differences other than sex, age, and taxonomic affiliation--unequal access to resources, for instance. Population ecologists who adopt this viewpoint may discover new answers to classical questions of population ecology. Partly because it uses a variety of examples from many taxonomic groups, this work will appeal not only to population ecologists but to ecologists in general.

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242

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Princeton University Press

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0691209618

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9780691209616

Polish Romantic Drama

Three Plays in English Translation

By: Adam Mickiewicz,Zygmunt Krasiński,Juliusz Słowacki

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Polish Romantic Drama

Three Plays in English Translation

By: Adam Mickiewicz,Zygmunt Krasiński,Juliusz Słowacki

Containing translations of three major plays, in his highly informative introduction, Professor Segel discusses the plays against the background of the Romantic movement in Poland and points out their ideological and artistic importance.

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306

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Taylor & Francis

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9057020882

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9789057020889

Book's by Adam Jasienski

Praying to Portraits

Praying to Portraits

The Trap

The Trap

Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25

Population Ecology of Individuals. (MPB-25), Volume 25

Polish Romantic Drama

Polish Romantic Drama

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