Church of San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume II: Altarpieces, chapels and altars (2019)

This book presents the altarpieces, chapels and altars 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.

Contents

The book Iglesia de San Ignacio Bogotá - Volume II: Altarpieces, chapels and altars (2019) includes the movable work that is on view, for example the High Altar along with the twelve altars that are distributed on the eastern and western sides, the pulpit, and the chapels.

Through the aesthetic expressions of baroque art, Jesuit catechesis taught the faithful the intrinsic relationship between prayer, symbols and art. For example, the use not only of the altarpiece as a resource, but also of a recognizable iconography and a gestural code found in the representations of the saints.

These are the chapters of the book:

1. Presentation , by Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, SJ
2. A work of art at the service of the liturgical celebration , by Germán Bernal Londoño, SJ
3. A place for each and every one , by María Constanza Villalobos A.
4. Influence of the temple on the cultural life of Bogotá, 17th and 17th centuries I, by Lina Beltrán.
5. Historical and technical aspects discovered in the restoration of the altarpiece of San Francisco Javier , by Yolanda Pachón Acero.
6. The ICAC and the Jesuit cultural heritage , by María Isabel Tello Fernández.
7. High altar.
8. Altar of Our Lady of Sorrows.
9. Altar of the Relics.
10. Altar of Saint Anne.
11. Altar of Saint Margaret of Alacoque.
12. Altar of Saint Joseph.
13. Altar of the Fallen Lord.
14. Altar of San Pedro Claver.
15. Altar of the Virgin of the Strada.
16. Altar of Our Lady of Loreto.
17. Altar of San Francisco de Borja.
18. Altar of San Francisco Javier.
19. Pulpit.
20. Chapel of the Rapture of Saint Ignatius.
21. Bibliographic references.

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 book is also complemented by texts by Jorge Humberto Peláez Piedrahita, SJ , Rector of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; In addition, texts by Germán Bernal Londoño, SJ , professor, specialist in Liturgy and rector of the Church of San Ignacio, are presented; Lina Constanza Beltrán Beltrán architect and master in Restoration of Architectural Monuments; and Yolanda Pachón Acero and María Isabel Tello Fernández , university professor, architect 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 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. 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.
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 II: Altarpieces, chapels and altars (2019 ) gives us a close look (a close-up) of the diversity and richness of the Church and the many details that make it splendid.