German sculpture of the later Renaissance: c. 1520 - 1580 ; art in an age of uncertainty

Focusing on how sculptures adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first comprehensive examination of the artistic response to the challenge of the Reformation in German lands. In so doing he exposes the years leading up to the Counter-Reformation as a period of surprising...

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Main Author: Smith, Jeffrey Chipps 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton Univ. Press 1994
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Summary:Focusing on how sculptures adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first comprehensive examination of the artistic response to the challenge of the Reformation in German lands. In so doing he exposes the years leading up to the Counter-Reformation as a period of surprising artistic vibrance
Abstract:During the Reformation, statues and carvings of saints, once commonly revered as aids to salvation, were condemned by increasing numbers of Protestants as fearsome idols. Moral doubts coupled with widespread acts of iconoclasm meant potential ruin for hundreds of German sculptors whose economic livelihood depended traditionally on church commissions
Physical Description:XXI, 524 S. zahlr. Ill., Kt. 29 cm
ISBN:0691032378
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