Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume IV: Goldsmithing, Ornaments and Reliquaries (2022)

This book presents the metalwork, ornaments and reliquaries of the Church of San Ignacio in Bogotá, Colombia. One of the treasures of the Society of Jesus in the country.

It is part of the series, edited by the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Villegas Editores, which has captured the cultural heritage of the Society of Jesus in Bogotá.

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Authors

The curatorship and the main texts are by the historian, restorer and teacher María Constanza Villalobos ; and the photographs of visual designer and photographer Andrés Mauricio López .

The presentation is by Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, SJ , Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Gerardo Remolina, SJ , ; and Luis Fernando Múnera, SJ , ; and the artist and editor Juan David Giraldo .

Other volumes about the Church of San Ignacio in Bogotá

This collection is preceded by the book Santiago Páramo and the chapel of San José - Iglesia de San Ignacio Bogotá (2013) . About the chapel of San José, heart of the Church and the most harmonious and best preserved religious artistic complex in Colombia, and the author of its painting and ornamentation, the Jesuit Santiago Páramo.

The other three volumes on the wealth of the Church of San Ignacio in Bogotá are:

1. First Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume I (2018) . On the architectural restoration of the Church.
2. Second Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume II: Altarpieces, chapels and altars (2019) . It presents the thirteen altars, altarpieces and chapels, distributed in that great baroque hall, perhaps the most important and best preserved in the country.
3. Third _ Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume III: Colonial painting (2021) . Colonial easel painting , with works that came to New Granada, the result of the global circulation of art, or produced in Santa Fe by artists of the stature of Gregorio Vásquez or Baltasar de Figueroa and their workshops, among others.

Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume IV: Goldsmithing, Ornaments and Reliquaries (2022 ) is a surprise for those who know its pieces that, beyond their splendor, express devotion and spirituality.