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THE INTERACTION OF ART AND RELICS I

  • Paperback
  • 185 pages
  • Publisher: Brepols Pub
  • 22.9 x 28.5 x 2.3 cm

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The collection of essays gathered in this volume investigates the interaction between art and relics as a distinct historical relevance for devotional art of Early Modernity and the Renaissance. Recent studies in the material culture of artifacts from these periods have drawn increasing attention to a sense of material tangibility derived from relics. Putting that conclusion into perspective, this edited collection focuses on the aesthetic meaning generated by a specific material culture of sanctity - one in which artists based their practice upon the nature, variety, and history of relics. Works of art that contained relics shared in the aura of the relics, defining themselves as non-substitutable signs, or signs that preserved the physical relationship to the immutable nature and origin of relics. As studied in this volume, funerary monuments, chapel decorations, altarpieces, liturgical objects, and sacred sites yielded an unordinary aesthetic meaning, one that captured and at the same time transmitted the histories linked to a relic. Each chapter emphasizes the specific history contained within works of art premised upon relics and thus forever embedded in the relics' status as sacred originals..

  • Title

    THE INTERACTION OF ART AND RELICS I

  • Author

    Livia Stoenescu

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brepols Pub

  • Published

    March 2020

  • Weight

    659g

  • Page Count

    185

  • Dimensions

    22.9 x 28.5 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9782503583983

  • ISBN-10

    2503583989

  • Eden Code

    5520677