Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of…
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Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, the fourteen essays presented here analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; brings to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offers new insights into the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane'. 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.
In the field of art history, the consequences of such collecting - its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically - have only begun to be investigated. Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. "Sacred Possessions" charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry.
Collecting Fine Art
Sacred Art of Brujeria
Sacred Art Hoffman Kathleen
Art in Theory 1815-1900
Art Since 1900 Foster Hal
Aqua-Sander Model II AH 1500-1900