Projektnummer

0060626

Zusammenfassung

"Living Devotion: Animating Sculpture in Early Modern Europe" explores how statues were understood to have the potential for animation in early modern Europe, that is, the belief that sculptures had the capacity for speech and movement and the possibility of coming to life, and the role of artists as animators. For centuries, Christian theologians had defended the use of images because they served to educate the illiterate, but the danger of idolatry was never far away. It was especially present in sculpture, made to resemble human bodies, which became increasingly naturalistic during ...