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This is a brief history of and investigation into the collecting of sacred art. 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. Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, the fourteen essays presented here analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; brings to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offers new insights into the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane'. Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. In the field of art history, the consequences of such collecting - its tendency to reframe an object, metaphorically and physically - have only begun to be investigated. "Sacred Possessions" charts the contours of a fertile terrain for further inquiry.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600

• Full title: Sacred Possessions - Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900
• Author: Gail Feigenbaum
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781606060421
• ISBN: 1606060422
• ID: 04836014
• Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
• Weight: 760 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. December 2010

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