TY - BOOK ID - 46196453 TI - The interaction of art and relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern art AU - Stoenescu, Livia AU - Brepols PY - 2020 SN - 9782503583983 2503583989 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - Relics KW - Art. KW - Christian religion KW - Christian special devotions KW - Art KW - material culture [discipline] KW - worship KW - religious art KW - relics KW - anno 1200-1799 KW - Art and religion KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Reliques KW - Reliquaries [Medieval ] KW - Reliquaries [Gothic ] KW - kunst en godsdienst UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46196453 AB - The collection of essays gathered in this volume investigates the interaction between art and relics as a distinct historical relevance for devotional art of Early Modernity and the Renaissance. Recent studies in the material culture of artifacts from these periods have drawn increasing attention to a sense of material tangibility derived from relics. Putting that conclusion into perspective, this edited collection focuses on the aesthetic meaning generated by a specific material culture of sanctity – one in which artists based their practice upon the nature, variety, and history of relics. Works of art that contained relics shared in the aura of the relics, defining themselves as non-substitutable signs, or signs that preserved the physical relationship to the immutable nature and origin of relics. As studied in this volume, funerary monuments, chapel decorations, altarpieces, liturgical objects, and sacred sites yielded an unordinary aesthetic meaning, one that captured and at the same time transmitted the histories linked to a relic. Each chapter emphasizes the specific history contained within works of art premised upon relics and thus forever embedded in the relics’ status as sacred originals.. ER -