Pygmalion’s Power : : Romanesque Sculpture, the Senses, and Religious Experience / / Thomas E. A. Dale.
Pushed to the height of its illusionistic powers during the first centuries of the Roman Empire, sculpture was largely abandoned with the ascendancy of Christianity, as the apparent animation of the material image and practices associated with sculpture were considered both superstitious and idolatr...
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