Jesuits and Universities Artistic and Ideological Aspects of
Baroque Colleges of the Society of Jesus — Examples from Genoa and Wrocław
Giacomo Montanari, Arkadiusz Wojtyła, Małgorzata Wyrzykowska, Introduction
Part One The Jesuits and Their College in Genoa
Introductory essay
Lauro Magnani, The Jesuit Fathers in Genoa, Their Art and History: New Research and a
Long Tradition of Studies
Lauro Magnani, Giuseppe Castiglione in Genoa: The Work of a Jesuit Artist for the
Global Culture of Images during His Chinese Mission
Davide Arecco, Science and Religion in the 17th Century: The Jesuits between Genoa and
Europe
Giovanni Paolo Rava, The Seminary of St. Ignazio in Genoa: A Building Site between
History, Philology and Traditional Architectural Techniques
Giacomo Montanari, Docere, Delectare, Movere: From the Library of the College of the
Society of Jesus in Genoa to the Iconographic Interpretation of the Great Fresco Painted
by Gio. Andrea Carlone in the Salone degli Esercizi Letterari
Laura Stagno, The Iconography of Saint Anne, Mater Virginis, in the Artistic Patronage
of the Jesuit Order: The Case of Genoa
Valentina Fiore, Andrea Pozzo and Genoese Altars: Comparisons, Exchanges and Relations
Regina Poso, On the Church of Jesus in Lecce
Part Two The Jesuits and Their College in Wrocław
Andrzej Józef Baranowski, Dynastic Background to Jesuit Academies in Central
Europe
Dariusz Galewski, Remarks o n the Architecture of Jesuit Colleges in the Bohemian
Province, Particularly in Silesia
Arkadiusz Wojtyła, Die Kirche auf der kayserlichen Burg. Some Remarks on the
Architecture and Ideological Programme of the Church of the Most Sacred Name of
Jesus in Wrocław
Anna Jezierska, Some Remarks on the Links between Rhetoric and Baroque Art as
Evidenced by the Decorations in the Church of the Most Sacred Name of Jesus in Wrocław
Małgorzata Wyrzykowska, Selected Questions Concerning the Architecture of the Main
Building of the University of Wrocław
Artur Kolbiarz, Michał Wardzyński, Sculpted Furnishings of the Jesuit Church and
University in Wrocław. New Findings and Interpretations
Romuald Nowak, The Personifications of the Cardinal Virtues from the Portal of the
University of Wrocław
Rafał Karlik, Andrzej Kozieł, Agnieszka Seidel-Grzesińska, The Aula Leopoldina
at the University of Wrocław as the Temple of God’s Wisdom. Notes on the
Iconographic
Program and Its Sources
Index of Historical Figures
Index of Localities and Buildings
List of Illustrations
380 pages, Hardcover
