Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images (Texts & Documents)

Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images (Texts & Documents)

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<div>In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during a time when the Church feared rampant abuse in the arts. Translated into English here for the first time, Paleotti’s <I>Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images</i> argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter’s responsibility to his spectators. The <I>Discourse</I> is introduced by historian Paolo Prodi, who explains how—even if the archbishop did not succeed in reforming the arts—Paleotti’s treatise constituted one last synthesis of art as a reading of creation and salvation history, and “sacred” art as a vehicle of devotion.</div>