The concept of Art as Religion that arose in the late 18th century became radicalized after 1850 in the perspective of a new aesthetic of modernity. Offering synchronous and diachronic perspectives that are media-specific as well as transmedial, the case studies assembled here illuminate differentiated viewpoints about a cultural phenomenon that proved of importance to both modernity and post-modernity.

Albert Meier, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel; Allessandro Costazza,
Università degli Studi di Milano; Gérard Laudin, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, Paris.