Lecture: Dr. Fredrika Jacobs, Burning the Devil and Dusting the Madonna: Images Efficacy in the Renaissance

When saw the post for this lecture I though it was something completely different. Efficacy: the power to produce and effect. I took this to mean something a little different than what the lecture produced. Although this was not what I expected it was interesting. Dr. Jacobs talked about how people through the years people have worshiped the Madonna and how they believe the way that you talk, look, or interact with the different Madonnas will effect your outcome. Although this is exactly what efficacy means I took it to mean how the Madonnas would effect on an intellectual, spiritual, emotional way, not that they believe that events will happen. In a way I would like people to look at my work and feel a similar way. I don't want people to think that something "supernatural" will happen but that my work has effected them in the same "deep" way.