The Matter of Miracles: Neapolitan Baroque Architecture and Sanctity (Rethinking Arts Histories Mup) - Hardcover

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Hills, Helen

9780719084744: The Matter of Miracles: Neapolitan Baroque Architecture and Sanctity (Rethinking Arts Histories Mup)

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ISBN 10: 0719084741 ISBN 13: 9780719084744

Verlag: Manchester University Press, 2016

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A study of the links between holy relics in baroque Naples and the urban environment in which they functioned, which shows that the urban setting was produced through the activities that took place there, and not the other way around.

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Helen Hills is Professor of History of Art at the University of York

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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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