If what I am
saying (with
qualifications) about academia's "religious turn" is correct, it would have to be demonstrable in one of my discipline's most central questions. I attempt to make this case in a paper published in
Art as Spiritual Perception. Here's the abstract:
Attribution of Florence's Brancacci Chapel frescoes, a chief catalyst of Renaissance perspective, was once dubbed the
most important question in the history of art. An earlier study (1997) that
traced the history of this connoisseur's dispute was so vexed by art historical contradictions that it concluded with fin de
siècle subjectivist despair. The latest study of the Chapel (2005), however, show a
renewed interest in the sacred and liturgical dimensions of the structure,
focusing especially on the Chapel's overlooked icon. This both places an icon at ground zero of Renaissance perspective, and is further
evidence for what has been called academia's "Religious Turn."
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If what I am saying (with qualifications) about academia's "religious turn" is correct, it would have to be demonstrable in one of my discipline's most central questions. I attempt to make this case in a paper published in Art as Spiritual Perception. Here's the abstract: