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This project explores sacred natural images in late medieval and early modern Christian culture, focusing on objects like marble slabs and plants that resemble religious figures. It combines art history, religious studies, and the history of science to understand their cultural significance.
My project spotlights a category of religious images that has hitherto escaped scholarly investigation: sacred representations that were believed to be a product of nature.
Objects of this kindsuch as marble slabs whose veining suggested a silhouette of the Virgin, or plants whose shape recalled that of a crucifixgarnered considerable attention in late medieval and early modern Christian culture.
Regarded both as divine prodigies to be revered and as natural wonders to be investigated, they were…
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
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Switzerland, Fribourg
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
The Regents of the University of California (University of California, Davis)
United States, Davis
Type: Public body
Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
SME: No
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