Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present by Gervase Rosser, Jane Garnett

Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present

Gervase Rosser, Jane Garnett

311 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
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Winner of the ACE / Mercers' Book Award 2014 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....

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