Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Gail Feigenbaum

Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900

Sybille Ebert-Schifferer, Gail Feigenbaum

256 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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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. Religious art embodies a complicated amalgam of the aesthetic and the numinou...

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