Author(s):
Pereira Coutinho, Maria João ; Ferreira, Sílvia ; Campos Pinto, Paulo
Date: 2022
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/143946
Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
Project/scholarship:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0046/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F00417%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F00417%2F2020/PT;
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/DL 57%2F2016/DL 57%2F2016%2FCP1453%2FCT0029/PT;
Subject(s): Arts and Humanities(all); Arts and Humanities(all); Arts and Humanities(all)
Description
DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0046 UIDB/00417/2020 UIDP/00417/2020 DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0029
The aim of this paper is to present an unpublished study about the St. Ignatius of Loyola chapel in the Jesuit Church of the Holy Spirit in Évora, Portugal. Built in the sixteenth century, was commissioned by a member of the Society of Jesus and adviser of the Queen of England, D. Catarina de Braganza (1638-1705), during her reign. He authored writings of theological scope and owned a vast library, acquired in London and transported to Évora, when he returned to Portugal, with the Queen. The singularity of this chapel relays on the exquisite combination of gilded and coloured woodcarving with marble inlay, displaying an iconographic program alluding to the Ignatian spirituality inspired by the emblems of the Mundus symbolicus by Filippo Piccinelli (1604-1678). The whole decorative program reflects the domain of the Catholic Reformation visual culture and a sharpening perception of the role of images in the construction of an apologetic and evangelizing discourse by the Portuguese Jesuits and its commissioner.
