The Rule, the Bible, and the Council: The Library of the Benedictine Abbey at PragliaThis monograph focuses on a Benedictine library decoration conceived and executed within a few years of the conclusion of the Council of Trent. The Benedictines of the Cassinese Congregation centered at Santa Giustina in Padua (to which nearby Praglia belongs) employed many leading artists of Venice and the Veneto in sixteenth-century projects, and the Abbey at Praglia commissioned work from Paolo Veronese and Tintoretto as well as Battista Zelotti. Diana Gisolfi and Staale Sinding-Larsen begin with a reconstruction of the sixteenth-century library room using physical, on-site evidence, extant documents concerning the furnishings, measurements of the paintings, and early descriptions to re-create with computer technology the room furnished and decorated in 1562-ca. 1570. Once reconstructed, the program in the twenty-four ceiling and wall canvases by Zelotti is revealed as doctrinal. Following a close reading of the images with reference to biblical texts, the authors assemble Benedictine and Conciliar material through which to evaluate and interpret the program. Much of the theological, dogmatic, and historical data brought forth has broader implications contributing to a revision of the current conception of the so-called Counter Reformation. |
Contents
The Benedictine Tradition of Books | 19 |
The Benedictine Order and the Catholic Reform | 59 |
The Texts of the Fathers | 73 |
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1960 conservation A.a. Pr abbot Abraham Ambrose anteroom Augustine Barbo Battista Zelotti Benedictine monastery Benedictine Order Benedictine tradition Bible biblical Biblioteca Biblioteca Marciana Breviary Caldogno canvas before 1960 Carpanese Cassinese Cassinese Congregation ceiling paintings century Cesena chapter Church Collett concerning Congregation of Santa Contarini context Council of Trent Cumaean Sibyl cycle divine documents ducati end wall entrance Erythraean Sibyl Eucharist faith Fathers figure fresco Gasparo Contarini Gregory Holy Spirit humility Ibid images inscriptions Jacob Jael Jedin Judith Justification Library at Praglia Library Room libri liturgy Marciana monks Montecassino Moses Old Testament Ottoni oval Padua Paolo Veronese Pentecost Praglia Library prayer reading reconstruction Refectory reference reform Sacrament Saint Benedict Saint Gregory's Samson Santa Giustina scenes Scripture Sibyl Sinding-Larsen Sisera Speculum virginum Tablets tempera on canvas Temple texts themes Tiburtine Sibyl Trolese Venezia Venice Verona Virgin Virtues wall paintings wisdom Zava Zava Boccazzi Zelotti's painting