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Divine Provision and the "Preternatural Imagination" of Edward Burne-Jones in the Mosaics of "The American Church" in Rome

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Divine Provision and the "Preternatural Imagination" of Edward Burne-Jones in the Mosaics of "The American Church" in Rome

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Rachel Hostetter Smith

Leiden

Brill

This essay examines the multiplicity of ways the building and decoration of the American church of St. Paul's Within-the-Walls in Rome signaled the dawning of a "new age," politically and spiritually, as the first Protestant church constructed within the city of Rome, initiated immediately after the city was freed from papal rule in 1870. The mosaics, designed by Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones and completed with the help of his assistant Thomas Rooke in the decades that follow, present Christ, and the Church in particular, as sources of divine sustenance and verdant life in the barren wilderness of this world. But it is the splendor of their design and the material magnificence of the mosaics themselves that create the first powerful and most lasting impact. Viewed through the lens of what P. T. Forsyth described as the "preternatural imagination" of Burne-Jones, these mosaics are distinctly contemporary works deeply rooted in religious and artistic tradition that address the transitional times for which they were made.

2018

135-175

Religion and the Arts

22/1-2

1568-5292

Annunciation

Art History

Comparative Religion & Religious Studies

divine provision

Earthly Paradise

Edward Burne-Jones

Heavenly Jerusalem

History

mosaic revival

nineteenth-century mosaics

Pre-Raphaelites

preternatural imagination

Religious Studies

St. Paul's Within-the-Walls, Rome

The American Church in Rome

The Church Militant

Tree of Life

Rachel Hostetter Smith

10.1163/15685292-02201015

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