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Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy, from the Renaissance to the Present
Jane Garnett
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Description for Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy, from the Renaissance to the Present
Hardback. Garnett and Rosser present a highly illustrated survey of Italian artworks that are believed to perform miracles - flying, speaking, weeping or producing miraculous cures. Num Pages: 304 pages, 100 colour, 50 black and white. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3J; AC; AGR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 200 x 250 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1238.
Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images, for example the belief that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep or produce miraculous cures. Although discomforting to widely-held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern European city such as Genoa, the primary focus of this book. Spectacular Miracles draws upon rich documentation from northwest Italy and elsewhere to show how, in a range of historical contexts, these images 'work'. Ritual ... Read more
Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images, for example the belief that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep or produce miraculous cures. Although discomforting to widely-held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern European city such as Genoa, the primary focus of this book. Spectacular Miracles draws upon rich documentation from northwest Italy and elsewhere to show how, in a range of historical contexts, these images 'work'. Ritual ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
1236g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780231051
SKU
V9781780231051
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About Jane Garnett
Jane Garnett is Fellow and Tutor in History at Wadham College, Oxford. She has published and taught widely on the history of Christianity, visual culture, gender and philosophy. Gervase Rosser is Fellow and Tutor in the History of Art at St Catherine's College, Oxford. His research and publications have focused on the social, visual and religious culture of medieval and ... Read more
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