Art, piety and destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700
By: edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin
Series: Visual culture in early modernity; Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780754669463
Description: "Spanning two centuries and two continents, [book title] addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. ... Questions of art's destruction, preservation, and censorship are discussed against the ever-present backdrop of religious conflict and varying degrees of tolerance. New information and original perspectives demonstrate the ways in which art illuminates history, and the close links between the changing values of a society and the images it displays to represent itself."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Art and religion : then and now / Virginia Chieffo Raguin; title: Salvaging saints : the rescue and display of relics in Munich during the early Catholic Reformation / Jeffrey Chipps Smith; title: Does religion matter? Adam Kraft's eucharistic tabernacle and Eobanus Hessus / Corine Schlief; title: You are what you wear (and use, and see) : the form of the reform in England / Virginia Chieffo Raguin; title: Repackaging the past : the survival, preservation and reinterpretation of the medieval windows of St. Mary's, Fairford, Gloucestershire / Sarah Brown; title: Preserving antiquity in a Protestant city : the Maison Carrée in sixteenth-century Nîmes / David Karmon; title: Destruction or preservation? the meaning of graffiti on paintings in religious sites / Véronique Plesch; title: Inquisitorial practices past and present : artistic censorship, the Virgin Mary, and St. Anne / Charlene Villaseñor Black.