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title | : | Reformation and the Visual Arts : The Protestant Image Question in Western and Eastern Europe Christianity and Society in the Modern World; 1st English Ed. |
author | : | Michalski, Sergiusz. |
publisher | : | Taylor & Francis Routledge |
isbn10 | asin | : | 0415065127 |
print isbn13 | : | 9780415065122 |
ebook isbn13 | : | 9780203314951 |
language | : | English |
subject | Reformation in art, larpcal--Protestantismo , Christian art and symbolism--Modern period, 1500- , larpcal--Arte E Religiao , Reforme (Christianisme) et art, Art chretien--1500---Europe, Visual arts--Special subjects--Christianity |
publication date | : | 1993 |
lcc | : | N7862.M5313 1993eb |
ddc | : | 704.9/482/0940903 |
subject | : | Reformation in art, larpcal--Protestantismo , Christian art and symbolism--Modern period, 1500- , larpcal--Arte E Religiao , Reforme (Christianisme) et art, Art chretien--1500---Europe, Visual arts--Special subjects--Christianity |
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THE REFORMATION AND THE VISUAL ARTS
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CHRISTIANITY AND SOCIETY IN THE MODERN WORLD
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THE REFORMATION AND THE VISUAL ARTS
The Protestant image question in Western and Eastern Europe
Sergiusz Michalski
London and New York
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First English edition published 1993
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
Originally published in Polish as Protestanci a Sztuka
by Pastwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1989
English edition 1993 Sergiusz Michalski
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Michalski, Sergiusz
The Reformation and the visual arts: the
Protestant image question in Western and
Eastern Europe.(Christianity &
Society in the Modern World Series)
I. Title II. Series
246
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Michalski, Sergiusz.
[Protestanci a sztuka. English]
The Reformation and the visual arts: the Protestant image
question in Western and Eastern Europe/Sergiusz Michalski. 1st
English ed.
p. cm.
Translation of: Protestanci a sztuka.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Reformation in art. 2. Christian art and symbolismModern
period. 1500 I. Title.
N7862.M5313 1993
704.94820940903dc20 9213311
ISBN 0-203-41425-X Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-203-31495-6 (OEB Format)
ISBN 0-415-06512-7 (Print Edition)
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To my parents
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Contents
List of plates | viii |
Acknowledgements | ix |
Introduction | x |
| Martin Luther: cultic abuse, religious art and Christian freedom | |
| The iconophobes: Karlstadt, Zwingli and Calvin | |
| Iconoclasm: rites of destruction | |
| Icon and pulpit: the Eastern Churches and the Reformation | |
| Symbols and commonplaces, or the conceptual background of the dispute on images | |
Appendix Protestant and Muslim aniconism: attempts at comparison | |
Notes | |
Guide to further reading | |
Index | |
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Plates
Between pages 98 and 99
| Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder(?), The Idolatry of the Israelites, woodcut, Strasburg 1532. |
| Unknown artist, Christ on the Palm Sunday Ass, Cologne c. 1500. |
| Michael Ostendorfer, Pilgrimage to the Image of the Beautiful Virgin in Regensburg, 1520, woodcut with a handwritten comment by Albrecht Drer below it (1523). |
| Unknown artist, engraving, c. 1540, showing Karlstadt as Rector of Basle University. |
| Unknown artist, etching showing Russians taking an oath before a household icon, from Adam Olearius, Vermehrte Neue Beschreibung der Moskowitischen und Persianischen Reise, Schleswig 1656. |
| Anonymous artist after Maarten van Heemskerck, Destruction of the Temple of Baal, engraving, 1565. |
| Franz Hogenberg, Calvinist Iconodasm in the Netherlands on 20 August 1566, engraving, published in Michael Aitsingers De Leone Belgico, Cologne 1588. |
| Anonymous author, portrait of Calvin, engraving, French loose-leaf print, 1611. |
| Unknown artist, woodcut showing iconoclasts plundering and destroying a sanctuary, from Thomas Murner, Vom Grossen Lutherischen Narren, Strasburg 1522. |
| Burning of crucifixes and papistical books in 1643, by an unknown artist. |
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