Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. In this essay drawings of religious vestments and liturgical objects drawn and collected by a covert English Catholic preserve their meaning and turn almost into relics.
Insignia Auguralia, Sacralia, et Sacerdotalia: John Talman and English Catholic Antiquarianism
SICCA, CINZIA MARIA
2010-01-01
Abstract
Collecting represents the primary mechanism by which a sacred work of art survives when it is alienated from its original context. In this essay drawings of religious vestments and liturgical objects drawn and collected by a covert English Catholic preserve their meaning and turn almost into relics.File in questo prodotto:
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