Spectacular Miracles: Transforming Images in Italy from the Renaissance to the Present

by Gervase Rosser and Jane Garnett

Winner of the ACE / Mercers' Book Award 2014

Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle ages into the present, even in a modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780231059
• ISBN13: 9781780231051
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.6" x 10.1"