Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford Studies in Historical Theology)

✍ Scribed by John Dillenberger

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 252
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

John Dillenberger has written the first comprehensive account of the relation between the visual arts and theological currents in Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century. With an astute knowledge of the theology of the period and a keen interest in the lives and work of prominent artists, Dillenberger makes incisive connections that illuminate the cultural movements of the time.

Images and Relics considers both popular and professional art within distinct religious contexts. It examines the works of Matthias Grunewald, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Michelangelo, Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Baldung Grien, and Albrecht Altdorfer, and demonstrates how these artists expressed and transformed the reigning theological ideas of their day. The book also addresses the range of iconoclastic movements from the 1520s to the 1570s, particularly in northern Europe. Finally, Dillenberger reflects on the ambiguity of the history of this period and its continuing impact on modern-day life.

✦ Table of Contents

Images and Relics
PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART I— CULTURAL AND THEOLOGICAL SETTINGS
1— Setting the Stage for the Image Question
The Chronology of Reform
Iconoclasm, Images, and Relics
The Role of Popular Culture
PART II— ARTISTS AND IMAGES
2— Matthias Grünewald: Extending the Medieval World
Orientation to the Person and his Work
The Isenheim Altarpiece
The Medieval Background
More on the Isenheim Altarpiece
Works after 1520
3— Albrecht Dürer: Renaissance Humanist Reform
Early Life and Work
Selected Works to Circa 1515
Dürer's Early Interest in Luther
Dürer and the Reformation in Nuremberg
4— Lucas Cranach the Elder: A Reformation Artist
Cranach the Elder Until Circa 1528
Luther's Views of the Visual Arts and Theology
Law and Gospel in the Art of the Cranachs
Individual Works after 1530
5— Michelangelo Buonarroti: Catholic Reformation Piety
Michelangelo and Reform
The Sistine Ceiling
Reforms in the Life and Thought of the Church
Religious Currents and Michelangelo's Last Judgment
Notes on the Pauline Chapel
Religious Conflicts and the Emergence of the Nicodemites
The Florentine Pieta and the Last Years
6— Three Artists with Distinctive Accents
Hans Holbein the Younger: Toward the Cult of the Portrait
Hans Baldung Grien: Misogyny and the Devil
Albrecht Altdorfer: Artist of Many Stripes
PART III— ICONOCLASM AND BEYOND
7— The Rejection and Repositioning of Visual Images
Reformation Theologians and Iconoclasm
Reconstitution of the Catholic Tradition
CONCLUSION: THOUGHTS IN THE WAKE OF THE REFORMATION
NOTES
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Museums, Churches, Libraries Important to this Project
Books and Articles
CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS
INDEX
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