- Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 600 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
- 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
- Matter of miracles (Online)
- Rethinking art's histories.
- Alternative Title
- Matter of miracles (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- LCCN
- 2017287149
- OCLC
- ssj0002404382
- Author
Hills, Helen.
- Title
The matter of miracles [electronic resource] : Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity / Helen Hills.
- Imprint
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.
- Series
Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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