Christopher M. S. Johns Books
Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe
The sculptor Antonio Canova was the most celebrated artist of a perilously protean and fractious era. In revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, while other artists bent to the will of the political p...
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China And The Church: Chinoiserie In Global Context
"This groundbreaking study examines decorative Chinese works of art and visual culture, known as chinoiserie, in the context of church and state politics, with a particular focus on the Catholic mi...
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Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment
"Investigates the response of the Roman Catholic Church to European Enlightenment critiques of revealed religion and clerical governance through the lens of its art, architecture, urbanism, and mat...
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Benedict Xiv And The Enlightenment: Art, Science, And Spirituality
By Christopher M. S. Johns, Philip Gavitt, Christopher Johns, Rebecca Messbarger
"Pope Benedict XIV Lambertini (r. 1740 58) was one of the driving forces behind the Italian Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. His campaign to reconcile faith and empirical science, re-launch...
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