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Article: Statuts, fonctions et usages de l'image dans le litterature spirituelle jesuite du XVIIe siecle.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2007
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Ralph Dekoninck. Ad Imaginem: Statuts, fonctions et usages de l'image dans le litterature spirituelle jesuite du XVIIe siecle.
Travaux du Grand Siecle 26. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2005. 424 pp. + 53 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. CHF120. ISBN: 2-600-01048-3.
In the past decade, studies of Jesuit emblematica and print culture have blossomed into a substratum of the field of Jesuit imagery, rightly acknowledging Antwerp as the second city of Jesuit art after Rome. Authors such as Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Richard Dimler, Karl J. Holtgen, Volker Remmert, Serge Gruzinski, and Jeffrey Chipps Smith have profoundly enhanced our understanding of this fascinating ...