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Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe
Antonia Canova and the politics of patronage in revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe

By Christopher M. S. Johns

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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
China And The Church: Chinoiserie In Global Context

By Christopher M. S. Johns

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"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
Visual Culture of Catholic Enlightenment

By Christopher M. S. Johns

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"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
Benedict Xiv And The Enlightenment: Art, Science, And Spirituality

By Christopher M. S. Johns, Philip Gavitt, Christopher Johns, Rebecca Messbarger

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"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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