Descrizione
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 radically – with changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of time. Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its, these essays analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; bring to light a lost holy tower from sixteenth-century Bavaria; and offer new insights into the meaning of “sacred” and “profane”.
