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Title

Art re-formed : re-assessing the impact of the Reformation on the visual arts / edited by Tara Hamling and Richard L. Williams.

Publication

Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Hamling, Tara
• Williams, Richard L. (Richard Lindsey), 1968-
• University of Sussex. Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies

Description

x, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.); 30 cm.

Summary

This text fundamentally reassesses traditional understandings of the impact of the Reformation on the visual arts in Britain. It brings together the work of leading authorities in the fields of art history, Reformation history and literary studies, together with research by younger scholars.

Subject

• Since 1500
• Reformation and art > Great Britain > Congresses
• Christian art and symbolism > Great Britain > Modern period, 1500- > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Based on a conference under the auspices of the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies at the University of Sussex in April 2005.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The visual arts and their functions in the English pre-reformation church / Phillip Lindley -- Predestined lives? Portraiture and religious belief in England and Wales, 1560-1620 / Tarnya Cooper -- "Saved through childbearing:" a godly context for Elizabethan pregnancy portraits / Karen Hearn -- The reformation of an icon: portraits of Christ in protestant England / Richard L. Williams -- Group portraits of the protestant reformers / Pamela Tudor-Craig -- The reformation of the virtues of sixteenth-century German art and decoration / Andrew Morrall -- Images and ethics in reformation political discourse: the paintings at Sir Thomas Smith's Hill Hall / Richard Simpson -- The appreciation of religious images in plasterwork in the protestant domestic interior / Tara Hamling -- Vredeman de Vries' "Last Judgement" in Gdansk: a calvinist reinterpretation of a catholic iconography / Barbara Uppenkamp -- Images in books: Foxe Eikonoklastes / Brian Cummings -- Pictures of print: Pierre Ramus, William Perkins and the reformed imagination / Raphael Hallet -- A Dutch devil in Derbyshire: adaption and appropriation in a 1624 broadside / Helen Pierce -- "In the cause of his god and true religion:" Sir Philip Sidney, the sequitur celebritas, and the cult of the protestant martyr / Elizabeth Goldring -- Art and Idolatry: reformed funeral monument / Margaret Aston -- Art reformed: spiritual revolution, spatial re-location / Maurice Howard.

ISBN

• 9781847183118 (cased)
• 1847183115 (cased)

OCLC

• 173239357
• SCSB-10251963

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Harvard Library