Spectacular miracles : transforming images in Italy from the Renaissance to the present / Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garnett, Jane, author.

Rosser, Gervase, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Icons--Cult--Italy--History.

Icons.

Mysticism and art--Italy--History.

Mysticism and art.

Psychology and art--Italy--History.

Psychology and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern European city such as Genoa, the primary focus of this book. Drawing upon rich documentation from northwest Italy and elsewhere, Spectacular Miracles shows how these images "wo

Contents:

Cover; Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present; Imprint Page; Contents; Preface; One: The Time and Space of the Miraculous Image; Two: The Invented Image; Three: The Activated Image; Four: Communion with the Image; Five: The Power of the Infinite Copy; Six: Portrait in an Altered Landscape; References; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 26, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780231426

1780231423