Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume III: Colonial painting (2021)

This book presents the colonial style paintings 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.

Content

The book focuses on the most outstanding works from his painting collection from the colonial period, which arrived or were created to adorn the temple from its construction in 1610 until the expulsion of the Company in the second half of the 18th century.

These are the chapters of the book:

1. Presentation , by Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, SJ
2. Introduction , by María Constaza Villalobos A.
3. Predestination and the beginnings of the Company in Santa Fe.
4. Apostles' Creed.
5. Creed and martyrdom of the apostles .
6. The circulation of works at a global level .
7. Jesuit saints .
8. Paintings for devotion .
9. Gregorio Vásquez de Arce y Ceballos .
10. Founders and reformers of orders .
11. Fathers of the Church .
12. The viceroyalty of New Granada and its spirituality expressed in sacred art , by María Isabel Tello Fernández.
13. Bibliographic references.

Authors

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

Other authors are Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, SJ , Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; It also includes a text by María Isabel Tello Fernández , architect, university professor and researcher and master in Restoration.

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 religious artistic ensemble and best preserved in Colombia, and the author of its painting and ornamentation was the Jesuit Santiago Páramo.

The other three volumes 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. Fourth Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume IV: Goldsmithing, Ornaments and Reliquaries (2022) . The goldsmithing, the ecclesiastical clothing, the objects of worship, together with the greatest expressions of Colonial Art in New Granada.

Consequently , Iglesia de San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume III: Colonial Painting (2021) is an opportunity to see, in good light, the paintings of the Church, appreciate their details and learn about their authors.