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The Eternal City, caput mundi....Rome has captivated and perplexed inhabitants and visitors alike for the last 3,000 years. With an eye to history, culture, art, and religion, students of Loyola University New Orleans' Italy Study Abroad program offer their take on the "live-and-learn" experience in one of the world's most fascinating cities.

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Spectacle, Patronage, and the Jesuits in Baroque Rome Our final week in Rome was exciting and hectic as we have been winding down on assignments and trying to fit in the last few great meals we can find around the city. Finishing our course work, we traveled to Baroque churches and monuments and went out with a bang studying a few of Rome’s most notable works that embody the theatricality and style of the Baroque period. Baroque art, as we should be very familiar with by now, is a style of art that came about after the Mannerist movement and after the Catholic Reformation. It focused on grandiose, theatrical presentations of art and similarly dramatic portrayals of these traditional motifs and iconographies. In the Baroque period, two of the most prominent artists and architects of the period were Francesco Borromini and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The contemporaries were both peers and rivals, Bernini being the more sociable, amiable of the two. This week we saw examples of both of...
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Spectacle, Patronage, and the Jesuits in Baroque Rome-Teresa Berner

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Here we are, the last blogpost of this four week series. The time I spent here in Rome was one the most educational experiences of my life.  Actually being in the presence of these works of art that I have learned about over the course of my life has been surreal. This week was no different. This week was all about the spectacle, patronage, and the Jesuits in Baroque Rome. The most evident spot of Jesuit patronage and spectacle that we went to this week was the church of S. Vitale. It is an ancient church that was renovated by the Jesuits during the Catholic Reformation. The Jesuits knew that they had to educate people about the reforms of the Catholic Church. They thought that by reminding the public about Catholic martyrs who showed the ultimate sign of faith by dying for their beliefs, people would be inspired to come back to the church. Along the walls of the nave are paintings of different martyrs. There are paintings of the martyrdom of St. Vitale in the apse of t...
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Final - Alaina Fontenot

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Rome is home to some of the world’s oldest and most influential works of art. This past month, in Art/Jesuits in Early Modern Rome, we covered an impressive amount of ground looking at work spanning from the 15th all the way to the 17th centuries. What’s maybe the most impressive, though, is the range of ceiling paintings that spanned these centuries. From the Allegory of Divine Providence by Pietro da Cartona in the Palazzo Barberini, to the Apotheosis of Saint Ignazio by Andrea Pozzo in the Chiesa di Stant’ Ignazio, to the Triumph of the Name of Jesus by Giovanni Battista Gaulli in the Gesù, each painting seemed more grandiose and mind-boggling than the next.  Each painting mentioned above is its own example of quadratura painting in the Baroque era. The Baroque movement in art came after the Renaissance and later Mannerism painting where there was an emphasis on going back to the Classical art and architecture of the Hellenistic period and Classical Rome. The art was very c...
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