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The Matter of Miracles : Neapolitan Baroque Architecture and Sanctity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Rethinking Art's Histories SeriesPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (656 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526100382
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Matter of MiraclesDDC classification:
  • 726.094573109031
LOC classification:
  • NA5621.N3 .H555 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: openings -- Prologue: the analogous relic -- Part I The miracle -- 1. The matter of miracles: San Gennaro's blood and the Treasury Chapel -- 2. Blood, bronze, Vesuvius: material transformations -- 3. Miraculous witness: exclusive affects -- Part II Patrons and protectors -- 4. The machinic chapel and the production of protectors -- 5. From prayer to presence -- Part III The choreography of sanctity -- 6. Niche and saints: folding the wall -- 7. Saints on the move and the choreography of sanctity -- 8. Holiness and history: relics and gender -- 9. Heads and bones: face to face -- 10. Silver saints: between transformation and transaction -- Conclusion: the miraculous chance -- Bibliography -- Plates and figures -- Index.
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Front matter -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: openings -- Prologue: the analogous relic -- Part I The miracle -- 1. The matter of miracles: San Gennaro's blood and the Treasury Chapel -- 2. Blood, bronze, Vesuvius: material transformations -- 3. Miraculous witness: exclusive affects -- Part II Patrons and protectors -- 4. The machinic chapel and the production of protectors -- 5. From prayer to presence -- Part III The choreography of sanctity -- 6. Niche and saints: folding the wall -- 7. Saints on the move and the choreography of sanctity -- 8. Holiness and history: relics and gender -- 9. Heads and bones: face to face -- 10. Silver saints: between transformation and transaction -- Conclusion: the miraculous chance -- Bibliography -- Plates and figures -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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