Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
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Baroque religious art
Buddhist art
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Fine Art Appreciation Day
Iconography
Islamic art
museum collections
private collections
profane art
Raphael
religious art
Religious iconography
religious imagery
Religious literature
Religious paintings
Religious rituals
Religious symbolism
Religious symbols
Religious traditions
Renaissance religious art
Rubens
Sacred art
sacred art preservation
sacred meaning
sacred to secular
secular reinterpretation
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- ISBN 9781606060421
- Weight: 756g
- Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 23 Dec 2010
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. 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. 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'. 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 - its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically - have only begun to be investigated. "Sacred Possessions" charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry.
Gail Feigenbaum is a former associate director of the Getty Research Institute. Sybille Ebert-Schifferer is director Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max Planck-Institut fur Kunstgeschichte, Rome.
