Blood, Paint, and a Killer Commission
Enshrining San Gennaro, Naples’ Protector Saint
Keywords:
San Gennaro, Treasury Chapel, Vesuvius, blood relic, miracleAbstract
Edward Payne is an Associate Professor of Early Modern Art History at Aarhus University. His research engages with such themes as violence and suffering, bodily and pictorial surfaces, word-image problems, and artistic geographies. A specialist of the Mediterranean Baroque, he is writing a monograph entitled Jusepe de Ribera: The Rawness of Nature, under contract with Reaktion Books. Edward has organized several exhibitions in the US and UK, and he has held research fellowships at the British School at Rome (2009) and the Clark Art Institute (2021).
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