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The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque a chitecture and sanctity

Title
The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque a chitecture and sanctity / Helen Hills.
Author
Hills, Helen
Publication
  • Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
xxii, 600 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 24 cm
Summary
This book investigates baroque architecture through the lens of San Gennaro's miraculously liquefying blood in Naples. This vantage point allows a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of the power of baroque relics and reliquaries. It shows how a focus on miracles produces original interpretations of architecture, sanctity and place which will engage architectural historians everywhere. The matter of the baroque miracle extends into a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. The study will transform our understanding of baroque art and architecture, sanctity and Naples. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation to engage fiercely with materiality and potentiality and thus unleash baroque art and architecture as productive and transformational.
Series Statement
Rethinking art's histories
Uniform Title
Rethinking art's histories.
Alternative Title
Neapolitan baroque a chitecture and sanctity
Subject
  • Duomo (Naples, Italy). Cappella del tesoro
  • Art, Baroque > Italy > Naples
  • Church decoration and ornament > Italy > Naples
  • Naples (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index.
Call Number
JQE 17-83
ISBN
  • 9780719084744
  • 0719084741
OCLC
933274081
Author
Hills, Helen, author.
Title
The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque a chitecture and sanctity / Helen Hills.
Publisher
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index.
Research Call Number
JQE 17-83
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