RT Article
T1 The Emblematic Decoration of the Staircase at the Former Jesuit College of Győr in the Context of Jesuit Marian Iconography
JF Journal of Jesuit studies
VO 11
IS 1
SP 120
OP 156
A1 Kusler, Ágnes
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1876510579
AB This article contextualizes the emblematic decoration of the main staircase at the Jesuit College in Győr, northwestern Hungary. Painted in 1697, this fresco cycle visualizes the prayer of Salve Regina. The staircase emblems were designed as a visual aid to the Jesuits who wished to meditate on the significance of the Virgin Mary. Earlier scholarship has connected the decorative scheme to Jesuit emblem literature in general. In this article, I argue that the visual source of the program can be identified as the Salve Regina print series by Anton Wierix (1598). The emblems and their program, key examples of applied emblematics, demonstrate how and to what degree Jesuit meditative praxis underlay the decoration of Győr college. Focusing on the practical function of the decorative program also expands our knowledge of early modern practices of emblematic meditation in religious communities. This article is part of the special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies on Jesuit emblems and emblematic edited by Walter S. Melion.
K1 baroque art in Hungary
K1 Győr
K1 Anton Wierix (c.1555-1604)
K1 Salve Regina prayer
K1 Jesuit meditation
K1 Marian emblematics
K1 applied emblematics
DO 10.1163/22141332-11010006