33-03 – Lo Sguardo | Rivista di Filosofia Online https://www.losguardo.net Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:09:06 +0000 it-IT hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.15 St John of the Cross’s Visions in the Night https://www.losguardo.net/it/st-john-of-the-crosss-visions-in-the-night/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:09:06 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=5068  ARTICOLI / 10 / Peter Tyler / The ecstasies and visions of the Iberian 16th Century siglo de oro are well known and described. This article analyses St John of the Cross’s forensic approach to these phenomena and how his notion of the ‘dark night’ set a bench-mark for later caution regarding how they should...

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]]> La disparition de l’extase mystique (fin xvie-xviie siècle) https://www.losguardo.net/it/la-disparition-de-lextase-mystique-fin-xvie-xviiesiecle/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:05:13 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=5066  ARTICOLI / 11 / Clement Duyck / The Disappearance of Mystical Ecstasy (from late 16th to late 17th century) This paper aims at shining a light on some of the theoretical processes that led mystical ecstasy to disappear between the end of 16th and the end of 17th century. The involvement of mystical ecstasy in...

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]]> Saints in Ecstasy. Discord and Meaning in Roman Images of Visionaries ca. 1590-1620 https://www.losguardo.net/it/saints-in-ecstasy-discord-and-meaning-in-roman-images-of-visionaries-ca-1590-1620/ Tue, 23 Aug 2022 10:00:48 +0000 http://www.losguardo.net/?p=5064  CONTRIBUTI / 3 / Thomas Santa Maria / This paper examines paintings of «saints in ecstasy» which were commissioned, executed, and displayed in Rome between ca. 1590 and 1620. I read these paintings against treatises on sacred art as well as sermons on Christian devotion and the role of the senses in spiritual life. The...

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