Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900

Informationen zum Autor Gail Feigenbaum is a former associate director of the Getty Research Institute. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer is director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome. Klappentext This innovative study explores how interpretations of religious art change when it is moved into a secular context. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own! this title analyzes 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'.

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• Authors: . Feigenbaum, .. Feigenbaum, Gail Feigenbaum, Gail Ebert-Schifferer Feigenbaum
• Assisted by: Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Editor), Gail Feigenbaum (Editor)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2010
• EAN: 9781606060421
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-042-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Issues & Debates (Paperback); Issues & Debates; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history