Sacred Possessions

Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900

By: Gail Feigenbaum (Editor), Sybille Ebert-Schifferer (Editor)

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Paperback | 23 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 changes—often
radically—with changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of time.

Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, these essays analyze the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; bring to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offer 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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"The standard of scholarship is high, as is usual with Getty publications."--Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance
"[This book] opens on a new way of considering the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane' art, and offers an affirmative answer to the question as to whether religious art collecting and the survival of sacred art, even when taken out of its context, can be a promising research path."--Renaissance Society of America

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Changing Contexts: Aesthetics of the Sacred
Cardinal Paleotti and the Discorso intorno alle imagini sacre e profane	p. 8
Rubens's First Painting for the High Altar of Santa Maria in Vallicella and His Unsuccessful Sales Strategy	p. 17
Implicit Decontextualization: Visual Discourse of Religious Paintings in Roman Collections circa 1600	p. 39
Caravaggio's Dispossession and Defamation	p. 55
Teaching Them to Serve and Obey: Giulio Mancini on Collecting Religious Art in Seventeenth-Century Rome	p. 68
Instruments of Faith and Passion
Sacra in a Tower: The Cardinal of Augsburg's Paintings and Reliquaries in 1566	p. 84
Nineteenth-Century Ecclesiastical Intellectuals and Early Italian Religious Art: Patterns of Collecting in Italy and Hungary	p. 104
Religious Paintings of Tommaso Antamoro: Devotion and Display of an Eighteenth-Century Roman Lawyer	p. 119
Insignia Auguralia, Sacralia, et Sacerdotalia: John Talman and English Catholic Antiquarianism	p. 140
Sacred Possessions and the Aesthete's Frisson in Decadent Literature: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and D'Annunzio's Il Piacere	p. 158
Aesthetic Devotion
From Sacred to Profane Cult Image: On the Display of Raphael's Sistine Madonna in Dresden	p. 171
Mary Magdalen in the Desert: The Dresden Picture Gallery, a Crypto-Catholic Collection?	p. 189
"Savior, Prince of Color": The Collection of Raphael Copies in the Orangery at Potsdam (1858)	p. 207
Sacred Art in the Profane New World of Nineteenth-Century America	p. 224
Biographical Notes on Contributors	p. 241
Illustration Credits	p. 243
Index	p. 244
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