Emotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic World, 1450–1800

Heather Graham, Ph.D. (2010 University of California, Los Angeles), is Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She is editor of Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018).Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank, Ph.D. (2009 University of California, Los Angeles), is Dean of Content and Strategy, Smarthistory, specializing in Ibero-American Art. She is author of Holy Organ or Unholy Idol? The Sacred Heart in the Art, Religion, and Politics of New Spain (Brill, 2018).

“Emotions, Art and Christianity is a beautifully constructed edited collection that enhances our understanding of early modern faith practices and their emotional dimensions across the transatlantic world.”Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide. In: Journal of Jesuit Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2022), pp. 467–469.

• AcknowledgmentsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsEmotions, Art, and Christianity in the Transatlantic WorldLauren Kilroy-Ewbank and Heather GrahamPART 1: Jesuits and the Visual Language of Emotions1 The Emotions of Ignatius of Loyola and the Mental Pictures of the Spiritual ExercisesAlison C. Fleming2 Allegory and Affective Experience in Thomas Sailly, S.J.’s Thesaurus precum et exercitiorum spiritualium of 1609Walter S. Melion3 O Tristissimum Spectaculum: Affective Responses to a Passional Iconography of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesDario Velandia OnofrePART 2: Gendered Emotions4 A Mother’s Wise and Prudent Grief: Reading Raphael’s Baglioni Entombment through the History of EmotionsHeather Graham5 To Weep with Mary and Mourn for Christ: Luis de Morales and the Facilitation of Emotional Communities in Badajoz, SpainLauren G. Kilroy-EwbankPART 3: Emotional Communities and the Christ Child6 “Kiss the Feet of the Infant Jesus”: The Emotional Efficacy of Early Christ Child Sculptures in Europe and BeyondPatricia Simons7 The Vocabulary of Tenderness: Maternal Feelings towards the Christ Child among Spanish American NunsNatalia Keller and Olaya SanfuentesPART 4: Emotions Transformed8 “The Kernel and Soul of Art”: Emotions in Rembrandt’s Religious EtchingsCharles M. Rosenberg9 A Fly in Milk: Fear and Black (In)visibility in New Spanish PaintingElena FitzPatrick SiffordIndex