Heavenly bodies : fashion and the Catholic imagination / Andrew Bolton ; with Barbara Drake Boehm, Marzia Cataldi Gallo, C. Griffith Mann, David Morgan, Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, and David Tracy ; images by Katerina Jebb.
2 volumes (335 pages, some folded) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 34 cm
Note
Catalog of exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 10-October 8, 2018.
Issued in a slip case.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 330).
Contents
[v.1] Sponsors' statements ; The Catholic imagination : the example of Michelangelo / David Tracy ; Sacred vestments : color and form / Marzia Cataldi Gallo ; I. The Vatican collection. On priestly garments / Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi ; Plates -- [v. 2] Introduction / Andrew Bolton ; Vestments and hierarchy in Catholic visual piety / David Morgan ; II. Fashioning worship. A vision of beauty : fashioning heaven on Earth / C. Griffith Mann ; Plates ; III. Fashioning devotion. Habit forming : costume in medieval monastic community / Barbara Drake Boehm ; Plates.