Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 Contributor(s): Feigenbaum, Gail (Editor), Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1606060422 ISBN-13: 9781606060421 Publisher: Getty Research Institute OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Subjects & Themes - Religious - Art | History - General |
Dewey: 704.948 |
LCCN: 2010019881 |
Series: Issues & Debates (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.9" W x 9.9" (1.67 lbs) 256 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When works of art created for religious purposes outlive their original function, they often take on new meanings as they move from sacred spaces to secular collections. Religious art embodies a complicated amalgam of the aesthetic and the numinous, and the fourteen essays in this volume explore how the admixture changes--often Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, these essays analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; bring to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offer new insights into the meaning of "sacred" and "profane." Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. In the field of art history, the consequences of such collecting--its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically--have only begun to be investigated. Sacred Possessions charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry. |