Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 bts26 John Scheid

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Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 bts26 John ScheidEdited by Gail Feigenbaum and Sybille Ebert Schifferer 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 numinous, and the fourteen essays in this volume explore how the admixture changesoften radicallywith changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of

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