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Author Hills, Helen, author

Title The matter of miracles : Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity / Helen Hills
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 600 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Series Rethinking art's histories
Rethinking art's histories.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-535) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Duomo (Naples, Italy). Cappella del tesoro.
SUBJECT Duomo (Naples, Italy). Cappella del tesoro fast
Duomo (Naples, Italy). Cappella del tesoro. nli
Subject Art, Baroque -- Italy -- Naples
Architecture, Baroque -- Italy -- Naples
Church decoration and ornament -- Italy -- Naples
ART -- History -- Baroque & Rococo.
Architecture, Baroque
Art, Baroque
Buildings
Church decoration and ornament
Art, Baroque -- Italy -- Naples.
Church decoration and ornament -- Italy -- Naples.
SUBJECT Naples (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Italy -- Naples
Naples (Italy) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526100382
152610038X
9781526100399
1526100398