Research Catalog

Title

Last things : art and the religious imagination in the age of reform / by Christine Göttler.

Author

Göttler, Christine

Publication

Turnhout : Brepols, c2010.

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Details

Description

xxxiii, 436 p. [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Proteus ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Proteus (Series) (Turnhout, Belgium) ; v. 2.

Subject

• Since 1500
• Christian art and symbolism > Modern period, 1500-
• Reformation and art
• Eschatologie
• Motieven (kunst)
• Technische ontwikkeling

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : last things and the vision of the imagination -- Indulgenced prints of Saint Gregory's miraculous mass -- Sites for the devout and sites for the curious : limbo, purgatory, and hell at Varallo -- Memory-images of the netherworld and their subversion in the Age of Reform -- Hearts, mirrors, and wheels : last things in late-sixteenth-century northern prints -- Shaping the soul : Giovanni Bernardino Azzolino's Novissimi in wax -- The eye as thief : mental and material images in meditation -- Jan Brueghel's poetic hells -- Epilogue : fables of Saturn and Vulcan.

ISBN

• 9782503523972 (hbk.)
• 2503523978 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 489637587
• SCSB-11059876

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library