Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality

Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos, Ph.D. (2012), researcher at the ARTIS - Institute of Art History, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon. His research focuses on the history and preservation of Portuguese architecture He has published several essays on this subject.

Foreword

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors



Introduction: Between Project and Ecstasy: the Architecture and Images of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri

 Daniele Ferrara



1 The Oratorians and the “Book of Nature”: Tommaso Bozio as a Reader of Giovan Battista Della Porta

 Gennaro Cassiani

2 Roman Devotion to Saint Philip Neri: How the Oratory Promoted Sanctity through Prints and Celebrations

 Valentina Emiliani

3 Nero Del Nero, Disciple and Patron of Saint Philip Neri

 Valentina Catalucci

4 Federico Barocci, Lucca, and the Oratorians: the Commission of the Noli me Tangere (1601–1609)

 Luca Baroni

5 Cesena and the Oratorians: Pier Mattia Angeloni, Carlo Fontana, and the Presumed Legacy of Francesco Borromini

 Iacopo Benincampi

6 Authenticating the Memory and Cult of Saint Philip Neri at the Naples Oratory

 Glenys Adams

7 The Oratorian Church of Santi Prospero E Filippo in Pistoia: a Manifesto of Seventeenth-Century Architecture in Tuscany

 Costantino Ceccanti

8 “Highly Meritorious for Their Culture and Teaching in the Sciences and the Arts”: the Artistic Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri in Lisbon

 Sofia Braga

9 André Soares and the Architecture of the Congregados Convent in Braga (1755–1768)

 Eduardo Pires de Oliveira

10 Between Villages and Walls: Legacy of the Oratorian Missionaries in Pernambuco (Brazil)

 Ana Lucia Nascimento, Ana Ligia Lira, and Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos

11 Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri in Goa: a Paradigm of Goan-Ness

 Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos

12 Typological Models of Goan Oratorian Churches in Sri Lanka: a Unique Oratorian Architectural Typology

 Sagara Jayasinghe

13 Oratorian Architecture in Spain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

 José Antonio Díaz-Gómez

14 True Portraits of Saint Philip Neri and Their Circulation in New Spain

 Erika B. González León

15 Continuity and Discontinuity through the Artistic Legacy of the Jesuits and Oratorians

 Luis Javier Cuesta Hernández and Berenice Pardo Hernández

16 John Henry Newman on Church Architecture: Preservation of Type and Power of Assimilation

 Uwe Michael Lang



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