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Sacred Possessions Collecting Italian Religious Art 1500–1900

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Autore/i	Edited by Gail Feigenbaum, Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
Editore	Getty Publications	Luogo	New York
Anno	2011	Pagine	256
Dimensioni	18x26 (cm)	Illustrazioni	86 ill. b/n - b/w ills
Legatura	bross. ill. colori - paperback illustrated	Conservazione	Nuovo - New
Lingua	Inglese - English Text	Peso	1000 (gr)
ISBN	1606060422	EAN-13	9781606060421

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(Issues & Debates).

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 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 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 is its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically, and have only begun to be investigated. Sacred Possessions charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry.

Gail Feigenbaum is associate director of the Getty Research Institute.
Sybille Ebert-Schifferer is director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome. (T-CA)