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Author Dillenberger, John.

Title Images and relics : theological perceptions and visual images in sixteenth-century Europe / John Dillenberger.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 248 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Oxford studies in historical theology
Oxford studies in historical theology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.
Contents pt. I. Cultural and Theological Settings. 1. Setting the Stage for the Image Question -- pt. II. Artists and Images. 2. Matthias Grunewald: Extending the Medieval World. 3. Albrecht Durer: Renaissance Humanist Reform. 4. Lucas Cranach the Elder: A Reformation Artist. 5. Michelangelo Buonarroti: Catholic Reformation Piety. 6. Three Artists with Distinctive Accents -- pt. III. Iconoclasm and Beyond. 7. The Rejection and Repositioning of Visual Images. Conclusion: Thoughts in the Wake of the Reformation.
Summary John Dillenberger has written the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological currents in Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century. With an astute knowledge of the theology of the period and a keen interest in the lives and work of prominent artists, Dillenberger makes incisive connections that illuminate the cultural movements of the time.
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Subject Reformation in art.
Reformation in art.
Art, Renaissance.
Art, Renaissance.
Artists -- Europe -- Psychology.
Artists.
Europe.
Psychology.
Reformation -- Europe.
Reformation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dillenberger, John. Images and relics. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195121724 (DLC) 98017078 (OCoLC)38898069
ISBN 9780199761463 (electronic book)
0199761469 (electronic book)
0585270473 (electronic book)
9780585270470 (electronic book)
0195121724 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)