Pygmalion's power: Romanesque sculpture, the senses, and religious experience

Abstract

""Explores how the distinctive formal and material qualities of a range of Romanesque sculpture types stimulated multisensory religious experiences. Emphasizes the power of these sculptures to "come alive" in ritual and produce emotional responses for Christians of the time"--Provided by publisher"--

Contents

Living statues : the crucifix and throne of wisdom -- The naked and the nude from theological ideal to sexual fantasy -- Sculpted portraits : convention and real presence -- Beautiful deformity and deformed beauty : the monstrous and deformed -- Renewing the temple : living stones and embodied theophanies.