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This volume brings together historians and art historians to explore the ways in which religious art was transformed by the splintering of Western Christendom that began 500 years ago with Martin Luther s Reformation. The religious turmoil of the sixteenth century has long been seen as a turning point in the history of Christian art.

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe (Bridget Heal)
1. Karlstadt's Wagen: The First Visual Propaganda for the Reformation (Lyndal Roper and Jennifer Spinks)
2. ‘Between these Two Kingdoms’: Exile, Election, and Godly Law in Sebald Beham's Moses and Aaron (Mitchell B. Merback)
3. The Unassembled Grammar of the Drawing in the Era of Reform (Shira Brisman)
4. The Family at Table: Protestant Identity, Self-Representation and the Limits of the Visual in Seventeenth-Century Zurich (Andrew Morrall)
5. Lutheran Baroque: The Afterlife of a Reformation Altarpiece (Bridget Heal)
6. Images (Not) Made By Chance (Amy Knight Powell)
7. The Art of Solitude: Environments of Prayer at the Bavarian Court of Wilhelm V (Christine Göttler)
8. The Reliquary Reformed (Mia M. Mochizuki)
Afterword (Joseph Leo Koerner)
Index

Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe

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      Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Published 17 November 2017
      ISBN-13 9781119422471
      978-1119422471
      ISBN-10 1119422477
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      Religious and ceremonial arts The arts: general topics Christian Churches, denominations, groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume brings together historians and art historians to explore the ways in which religious art was transformed by the splintering of Western Christendom that began 500 years ago with Martin Luther s Reformation. The religious turmoil of the sixteenth century has long been seen as a turning point in the history of Christian art.

      Table of Contents

      Notes on Contributors
      Introduction: Art and Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe (Bridget Heal)
      1. Karlstadt's Wagen: The First Visual Propaganda for the Reformation (Lyndal Roper and Jennifer Spinks)
      2. ‘Between these Two Kingdoms’: Exile, Election, and Godly Law in Sebald Beham's Moses and Aaron (Mitchell B. Merback)
      3. The Unassembled Grammar of the Drawing in the Era of Reform (Shira Brisman)
      4. The Family at Table: Protestant Identity, Self-Representation and the Limits of the Visual in Seventeenth-Century Zurich (Andrew Morrall)
      5. Lutheran Baroque: The Afterlife of a Reformation Altarpiece (Bridget Heal)
      6. Images (Not) Made By Chance (Amy Knight Powell)
      7. The Art of Solitude: Environments of Prayer at the Bavarian Court of Wilhelm V (Christine Göttler)
      8. The Reliquary Reformed (Mia M. Mochizuki)
      Afterword (Joseph Leo Koerner)
      Index

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