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The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic

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Description for The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white halftones, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; AGR; AMN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1134.

In describing the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic, Johan Huizinga said, “Paintings could be found everywhere . . . everywhere except in churches.” Although pictures were ubiquitous in the Dutch world, the official religion expressed a fundamental distrust of visual imagery. Indeed, Calvinism and visual culture were both central modes of self-understanding in Dutch society. Investigating this paradox, The Wake of Iconoclasm takes as its main subject the numerous paintings of austere Calvinist church interiors that proliferated in the seventeenth century. Painstakingly crafted and highly naturalistic images of interiors, these peculiar paintings show spaces that were purged of visual imagery during and ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1128g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271050614
SKU
V9780271050614
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About David Prochaska
Angela Vanhaelen is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University.

Reviews for The Wake of Iconoclasm: Painting the Church in the Dutch Republic
“Seventeenth-century Dutch church paintings have been the subject of much art-historical inquiry, and this handsomely produced volume makes a valuable contribution to the discussion. . . . Vanhaelen, a recognized specialist in this area, explores the connection between church paintings and contemporary religious thought—not just Calvinism, but also Roman Catholicism and even Islam. She brings out the significance of the ... Read more

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