Cynthia Hahn is professor of art history and director of graduate studies in art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including Strange Beauty. "
"Hahn has filled an important gap in scholarship. This book is the
first to understand and analyze reliquaries as creations for the
stimulation of attention and the capturing of desire. Hahn's
supreme knowledge and comprehensive approach enable her to look
behind the surface of the reliquary, following its developments
over time and drawing some sometimes surprising conclusions. As a
contribution to the cross-cultural study of art, The Reliquary
Effect shows how we can strengthen our understanding of the origins
and foundations of our culture and those of others."--Gerhard Lutz,
curator of the Dommuseum Hildesheim
"[A] splendid book. . . . The Reliquary Effect sparkles with
gorgeous pictures, and the text is deservedly full of epithets such
as 'sumptious and spectacular, ' 'rich and lavish, ' 'lavish and
extensive.' The objects under discussion were in most cases the
most precious possessions of some of Europe's most powerful
individuals and institutions over more than a thousand years. . . .
Hahn elegantly elides her discussion of Christian relics into an
investigation of their secular equivalents. . . . A page-turner."--
"Art Newspaper"
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