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sacra conversazione: a standalone construct

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Art history

an altarpiece type in which the Virgin and Child and saints share one unified space as if in silent communion.

In art history, sacra conversazione refers to an altarpiece type in which the Virgin and Child and saints share one unified space as if in silent communion. This meaning comes from Goffen (1979) in The Art Bulletin.[1]

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References

Goffen, R. (1979). Nostra conversatio in caelis est: Observations on the sacra conversazione in the Trecento. The Art Bulletin, 61(2), 198-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1979.10787658

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