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Parution : Timothy Verdon, “Method, Meaning, Mystery”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025

par · 04/08/2026

The present volume is the first of eight that read Christian art and architecture in relation to Scripture and exegesis, to theology, to liturgy, and to devotional piety. Entitled Method and Meaning, it focusses on constants in the two millennia since artists began to interpret what Christians believe and experience. Its goal is to suggest an interdisciplinary approach suited to the variety of works produced in that temporal span.

Director of the Museo dell’Opera dell Duomo, Florence, Monsignor Timothy Verdon, a Canon of the city’s cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, is also Director of the Office of Sacred Art of the Florentine Archdiocese and former Consultor of the Vatican Commission of Church Heritage. Author of numerous books and articles on Christian art, Verdon, who has a Ph.D. in art history from Yale University and has been a Fellow of the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti (Florence), is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College, London. Verdon, who has organized major exhibitions at Turin, Washington, D. C., Seoul and New York City, furnished the installation project of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, enlarged and entirely renovated in 2012–2015.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author’s Foreword

I. The Visible Word
II. Images of Ideas
III. Images and Spaces for the Liturgy
IV. Art and Devotion
V. The Influence of Non-Ecclesial Culture
VI. Tradition
VII. ‘Sacred’, ‘Religious’, ‘Moralising’
VIII. The Mother of God
IX. The Last Things
X. Seeing, Believing, Understanding

Bibliographic Note
Name Index

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Fiammetta Campagnoli
Fiammetta Campagnoli
Fiammetta Campagnoli est docteure en histoire de l'art moderne à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches se concentrent sur la… Lire la suite
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Fiammetta Campagnoli (4 août 2026). Parution : Timothy Verdon, “Method, Meaning, Mystery”, Turnhout, Brepols, 2025. Collectif d'Historiens de l'Art de la Renaissance. Consulté le 8 août 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/16ngk

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