Miraculous Images

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Miraculous Images
Description
The data shows the distribution of images believed to have performed miracles and venerated through public cults across Florence between 1250 and 1600.

This layer draws on information gathered and mapped by Megan Holmes in The Miraculous Image in Renaissance Florence (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013), revealing what she describes as a ‘topography of the sacred’. These paintings and sculptures, many of which still exist, were located in street shrines or enclosed within churches and oratories, framed with ornaments and tabernacles. Their display across the city alongside data relating to family clusters and professional districts provides context to a category of objects that bore agency over their surroundings and thus were often highly politicised during the Renaissance. Beginning and end dates refer to the lifespan of each image’s cult, according to Megan Holmes survey.
Is Part Of
Arts of Florence
number
02
Source
https://www.academia.edu/4138103/Holmes_Miraculous_Images_in_Renaissance_Florence

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