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The Rococo altarpiece of St Ignatius: Chile’s grandest colonial retable rediscovered

12/2013 | 1329 | 155

Pages: 815-820

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Author:

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander (Bailey, Gauvin Alexander)

Author:

Guzmán, Fernando (Guzmán, Fernando)

Subjects

artists:

Colegio Máximo, Santiago, Chile / Workshops (Organisations) / Jesuits

buildings:

San Juan Evangelista, Santiago, Chile

dates:

1740-1749 / 1750-1779

places:

Santiago / Chile

subjects:

German architecture / German sculpture / Altarpieces / Retables / Rococo / Central European / Colonial / Visual sources

subjects:

Ignatius of Loyola, Saint

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Influence

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Formal analysis

Illustrations

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10. High altar, by Johann Joachim Dietrich (Abbey Church, Diessen)

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11. Detail of Fig. 8

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12. Detail of Fig. 8

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13. Detail of the altarpiece from the Colegio de San Borja, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Museo de San Francisco, Santiago)

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14. St Ignatius of Loyola, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Museo del Carmen de Maipú)

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15. Altar of the church of St-Jean-en-Grève, Paris, by Jacques-François Blondel. Designed 1720-21. Engraving from J. Barozzio de Vignole: Livre Nouveau ou Regles des cinq ordres d'Architecture, Paris 1767. (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris)

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16. Model altarpiece from series 80, by Franz Xaver Habermann, published by Georg Hertel (Kunstsammlungen und Museen, Augsburg)

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17. Altar of the Virgin Immaculate, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago. (From the oratory of the Larraín Rojas family of Santiago; altarpiece destroyed 2010)

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18. Detail of Fig. 8

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19. Rocaille, from series 111, by Franz Xaver Habermann, published by Georg Hertel. (Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich)

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8. Former altar of St Ignatius, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Church of San Juan Evangelista, Santago; photograph by Nicolás Aguayo)

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9. Former side altarpiece from the church of San Miguel, Santiago, by the Jesuit atelier at the Colegio Máximo, Santiago (Cathedral Museum, Santiago)

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