The spiritual language of art : medieval Christian themes in writings on art of the Italian Renaissance /

"Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experience during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the i...

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Main Author: Stowell, Steven, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 186.
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