Art & design styles: Baroque
The matter of miracles
Neapolitan baroque architecture and sanctity
Series edited by Amelia Jones, Helen Hills, Marsha Meskimmon
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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.
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The matter of miracles offers a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of baroque relics, reliquaries, metals and materiality, through investigation of the miracle of the Neapolitan saint San Gennaro's liquefying blood in relation to art, philosophy, architecture and the city. Focused on the richly adorned baroque Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro, this study embraces sanctity and salvation in the material analogies at work among city, saint, volcano and blood to question the cultural impact of Spanish colonialism within Europe in the city of Naples. It examines the matter of the baroque miracle as transformational through a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. Bronze and silver, architecture and sculpture are subjected to energetic interpretations, which give a vitally new approach to baroque sanctity, in which the city is seen as an event in the history of holiness. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation, to engage fiercely with materiality as potentiality and thus with art and architecture as potentially transformative. The matter of miracles will particular appeal to students and scholars of urban studies, art and architectural history and theory.
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Investigating the miracle of the Neapolitan saint San Gennaro's liquefying blood in relation to art, architecture and philosophy, this book offers a bracing and thoroughly original rethink of baroque relics, reliquaries, metals and materiality. Focused on the richly adorned baroque Treasury Chapel of San Gennaro, this study embraces sanctity and salvation, and questions the cultural impact and consequences of Spanish colonialism within Europe in the city of Naples. It examines the matter of the baroque miracle through a rigorous engagement with natural history, telluric philosophy, new materialism, theory and philosophy. Bronze and silver architecture and sculpture are subjected to energetic transformational interpretations, which give a vitally new approach to baroque sanctity, in which the city is seen as an event in the history of holiness. Bristling with new archival materials and historical insights, this study lifts the baroque from its previous marginalisation, to engage fiercely with materiality as potentiality and thus with art and architecture as potentially transformative. -
Author Biography
Helen Hills is Professor of History of Art at the University of York. Dorothy C. Rowe is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date October 2016
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780719084744 / 0719084741
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 80 GBP
- Pages656
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 x 156 mm
- Illustration49 colour illustrations, 72 black & white illustrations
- Biblio NotesIntroduction: Openings Prologue: The analogous relic 1. The matter of miracles: San Gennaro's blood and the Treasury Chapel 2. Blood, bronze, Vesuvius: material transformations 3. Miraculous witness: exclusive affects 4. The Machinic Chapel and the production of protectors 5. From prayer to presence 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 Index
- SeriesRethinking Art's Histories
- Reference CodeIPR3588
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