Descripción del proyecto
«Globalización» de la historia del arte moderno temprano
La historia del arte ha estudiado en detalle durante mucho tiempo la adhesión de las obras de arte a los modelos de santidad formulados por la Iglesia de la Contrarreforma. El equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos GLOBECOSAL estudiará cómo se emplearon las obras de arte en el proceso de negociación de la santidad con la curia romana en la era de la hegemonía ibérica. Para ello, se examinarán las obras de arte creadas por destacadas figuras católicas en el contexto «global» posterior al Concilio de Trento. El proyecto rastreará el tráfico de objetos materiales e iconografías tanto dentro como entre redes mundiales de transmisión de conocimientos y combinará este planteamiento con un hipotético «mercado mundial de valores simbólicos» desarrollado sobre la base de conceptos de la sociología crítica. En general, el objetivo del trabajo del proyecto es cuestionar las opiniones tradicionales sobre el catolicismo romano, el colonialismo y el mundo moderno temprano en su conjunto.
Objetivo
GLOBECOSAL investigates how artworks were employed in the process of negotiating sanctity with the Roman Curia in the age of Iberian hegemony by examining the artworks produced with regard to the pioneers of Catholic blesseds and saints in the post-Tridentine ‘global’ context. As the cult of the saints was among the key conceptual battlegrounds in the conflict between the Catholic church and the Protestants, in the post-Tridentine period, saints came to fulfill spiritual, ideological and propagandistic purposes. Art history has paid heightened attention to the adherence of artworks to the models of sanctity formulated by the Tridentine church, leading to an overall neglect of competing local constructions of sanctity, a shortfall particularly momentous with regard to blesseds and saints connected in different ways to the process of European expansion, specifically to the Iberian empires.
The hypothesis under examination is that the artworks produced in relation to gaining recognition by the Church of saints first venerated in newly Christianized territories reveal an underlying negotiation of the local Catholic communities’ spiritual status within universal Catholicism. As official recognition affirmed the society which had made a saint its own, artworks related to this process served purposes of self-representation within the broader framework of social identity formation.
GLOBECOSAL traces the circulation of material objects and iconographies within and between global networks of knowledge transmission, and combines this approach with a hypothetical ‘global market of symbolic values’ developed on the basis of concepts from critical sociology. Investigating the negotiation of sanctity between Rome and geographically distant areas participates in ‘globalizing’ the history of early modern art and is qualified to challenge established perspectives on Roman Catholicism, colonialism, and the early modern world at large.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
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