The matter of miracles

The matter of miracles

by Amelia JonesHelen Hills and Marsha Meskimmon
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/02/2021

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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.

ISBN:
9781526100399
9781526100399
Category:
History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-02-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Manchester University Press

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