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" Divine Provision and the “Preternatural Imagination” of Edward Burne-Jones in the Mosaics of “The American Church” in Rome "
Rachel Hostetter Smith

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081900
Doc. No	:	LA125529
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201015‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Rachel Hostetter Smith
Title & Author	:	Divine Provision and the “Preternatural Imagination” of Edward Burne-Jones in the Mosaics of “The American Church” in Rome [Article]\ Rachel Hostetter Smith
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2018
Volume/ Issue Number	:	22/1-2
Page No	:	135–175
Abstract	:	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.
Descriptor	:	Annunciation
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	divine provision
Descriptor	:	Earthly Paradise
Descriptor	:	Edward Burne-Jones
Descriptor	:	Heavenly Jerusalem
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	mosaic revival
Descriptor	:	nineteenth-century mosaics
Descriptor	:	Pre-Raphaelites
Descriptor	:	preternatural imagination
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	St. Paul’s Within-the-Walls, Rome
Descriptor	:	The American Church in Rome
Descriptor	:	The Church Militant
Descriptor	:	Tree of Life
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-02201015‬