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.

• ForewordList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Between Project and Ecstasy: the Architecture and Images of the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip NeriDaniele Ferrara1 The Oratorians and the “Book of Nature”: Tommaso Bozio as a Reader of Giovan Battista Della PortaGennaro Cassiani2 Roman Devotion to Saint Philip Neri: How the Oratory Promoted Sanctity through Prints and CelebrationsValentina Emiliani3 Nero Del Nero, Disciple and Patron of Saint Philip NeriValentina Catalucci4 Federico Barocci, Lucca, and the Oratorians: the Commission of the Noli me Tangere (1601–1609)Luca Baroni5 Cesena and the Oratorians: Pier Mattia Angeloni, Carlo Fontana, and the Presumed Legacy of Francesco BorrominiIacopo Benincampi6 Authenticating the Memory and Cult of Saint Philip Neri at the Naples OratoryGlenys Adams7 The Oratorian Church of Santi Prospero E Filippo in Pistoia: a Manifesto of Seventeenth-Century Architecture in TuscanyCostantino Ceccanti8 “Highly Meritorious for Their Culture and Teaching in the Sciences and the Arts”: the Artistic Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri in LisbonSofia Braga9 André Soares and the Architecture of the Congregados Convent in Braga (1755–1768)Eduardo Pires de Oliveira10 Between Villages and Walls: Legacy of the Oratorian Missionaries in Pernambuco (Brazil)Ana Lucia Nascimento, Ana Ligia Lira, and Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos11 Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri in Goa: a Paradigm of Goan-NessJoaquim Rodrigues dos Santos12 Typological Models of Goan Oratorian Churches in Sri Lanka: a Unique Oratorian Architectural TypologySagara Jayasinghe13 Oratorian Architecture in Spain during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesJosé Antonio Díaz-Gómez14 True Portraits of Saint Philip Neri and Their Circulation in New SpainErika B. González León15 Continuity and Discontinuity through the Artistic Legacy of the Jesuits and OratoriansLuis Javier Cuesta Hernández and Berenice Pardo Hernández16 John Henry Newman on Church Architecture: Preservation of Type and Power of AssimilationUwe Michael LangIndex