Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 Ages 0-3 ISBN 978-0-89236-962-1

ISBN 978-0-89236-962-1

and the landscape became a creation of rich tones and graphic compositions

Kevin Butcher is associate professor of classical archaeology at the American University of Beirut where he specializes in the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

Her books include Reading Buddhist Art: An Illustrated Guide to Buddhist Signs and Symbols and The Arts of Asia: Materials

Sacred Possessions: Collecting Italian Religious Art, 1500-1900 Ages 0-3 ISBN 978-0-89236-962-1Edited by Gail Feigenbaum and Sybille Ebert Schifferer 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 changesoften radicallywith changes of function, setting, audience, and the passage of