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The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity /
This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro's miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpret...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Rethinking art's histories.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro's miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 600 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781526100382 152610038X 9781526100399 1526100398 |