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NEGOTIATING THE NUMINOUS: PORDENONE AND THE MIRACULOUS MADONNA DI CAMPAGNA OF PIACENZA
Ist Teil von
Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 2020-01, Vol.62 (2/3), p.180-207
Ort / Verlag
Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
The decorations that Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone frescoed in the central cupola of Santa Maria di Campagna in Piacenza, Italy (1530–1532) have never been considered in relation to the venerable cult statue they surround. As a pictorial extension of the statue's charisma, Pordenone's paintings glorify the statue, but they also provide a complicated response to the object's claim to divine authenticity. This essay explores how an artist working in an age of religious controversy combined powerfully affective illusionism with the expressive flexibility of arcane ornament to sound out the revelatory potential of human artifice in dialogue with an object of a higher, miraculous order. In doing so, Pordenone's decorations not only bolstered and legitimized the desired function of the cult statue, but encouraged a speculative form of religious engagement in pursuit of divine truth and its miraculous manifestation.