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Architecture for the shroud : relic and ritual in Turin /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, John Beldon, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Cappella della Sindone (Duomo di Torino)
Church architecture > Italy > Turin.
Guarini, Guarino, > 1624-1683 > Criticism and interpretation.
Holy Shroud.
Reliquaries > Italy > Turin > Designs and plans.
Rites and ceremonies > Italy > Turin.
Turin (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Architecture and relic
  • Peregrinations
  • Relic and kingship
  • Shroud of ChambĂ©ry: Sainte-Chapelle
  • A new capital and its relic
  • "Terror of architecture": Guarino Guarini and the Chapel of the Holy Shroud
  • Seeing the shroud: Guarini's sacred theater
  • Faith in geometry
  • Imagery of devotion and dynasty
  • Illusion of meaning/meaning of illusion
  • Relic and monarchy in the urban setting
  • Cultic urbanism: ritual in the public theater of ostension
  • Dynastic pantheon: revolution and Risorgimento
  • Shroud and architecture in the Italian state
  • Ritual architecture and power.