Pictures And Popery
Subtitle: Art And Religion in England, 1660-1760
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: November 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780754655060
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; History of religion; Art; Art & Art Instruction; British Isles; General; Christianity - History - General; Subjects & Themes - Religious; 17th century; 18th century; Art and religion; Art and society; England; History
First sentence: In eighteenth-century England, at a time when the nation prided itself on its stalwart defence of the Reformation, the works of art that were most prized were Roman Catholic in subject matter and provenance.